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Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 13:30:55 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: suggestion/rant re: install method
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On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 11:26:59AM -0500, David T-G wrote:
>Alfonso, et al --
>
>...and then Urdaneta, Alfonso E (N-Summitt Technologies) said...
>% 
>% I just tried to download and install cygwin - and I have to say the install
>% is highly frustrating.
>
>I must admit that I know what you mean.
>
>
>% 
>% While I understand the motivation for the granular installer, I think that
>% you should still provide the option of a monolithic download.  Unfortunatly
>% many of the "mirrors" that I had to chose from only mirrored a subset of the
>% modules that I needed to download for my full install.
>
>I don't feel a need to go back to a monolithic download, but keeping
>mirrors up to date really is a challenge.

The mirror list is supposed to be up-to-date modulo 12 hours or so.  Can
you provide an example mirror site that is badly out-of-date?

cgf

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