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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>, "Randall R Schulz" <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
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Subject: Re: setting up cygwin
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 06:40:21 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Randall R Schulz" <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>


> Rob,
>
> Setup.exe serves the purpose of mirroring just fine, as along as all
you
> want to mirror is a set of Cygwin install packages, with or without
source
> (or, for that matter, with the current version of Setup.exe, source
alone).

Randall, there is a difference between being able to use a tool for
something, and it being designed for something.

Being the setup maintainer, I think I am in the position of being able
to state it's design parameters!

I repeat: Setup is not designed for mirroring, and if one wants to grab
all the binaries, and all the sources, then one should use a mirroring
tool.

I've no objection to a second .exe being built leveraging the setup.exe
source, in the cinstall directory that *is* designed for mirroring, but
I am not going to try to make setup.exe a mirror tool for cygwin! The
reasons have already been stated, both here and on cygwin-apps.

Rob


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