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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Setup.exe release-candidate
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:49:46 -0000
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> > > At 11:00 AM 3/15/2002, Max Bowsher wrote:
> > > >Hi - Could someone tell me what the reason behind making setup put
> > packages
> > > >in directories named for the mirror they came from? I'm sure there
> > > >was a good reason, I just can't figure it out.
> > >
> > > It's to support selecting packages from multiple mirrors.  See the
> > > email archives for more in depth discussions on this topic.
> >
> > I searched, but did not find. The point of my original
> > question was this: At the moment, every so often, I merge the
> > mirror directories into my old-style main directory by hand.
> > If I produced a patch to add a 'tidy download directories'
> > option to setup, that did this, would people say "that's
> > helpful" or "that's stupid".

> They would say "Something like that was planned eventually anyway -
> thank you very much for helping".

OK! - I'll put somehing together - but in that case, what is the purpose of the
mirror-named directories in the first place?

Also, I'm a bit of a newbie with CVS - what is the situation with the branches
at the moment?


Max Bowsher.


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