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Subject: Re: A Mingw32 runtime library independent of MSVCRT.DLL
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 14:07:31 +0100
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On mingw-users AT lists DOT sourceforge DOT net, Robert Collins wrote:

> Hi, I'm the cygwin setup.exe maintainer.
...snip...
> Patches to link setup.exe
> with your mingw ACR will be considered like all other patches - I'm not
> particularly for or against linking into it.

My argument against:

Wouldn't this be needless bloat for setup.exe? Why ship setup.exe with a C
library linked in when there is an acceptable one already present on just about
every Windows computer? (Unless of course there is a specific bug in msvcrt that
is troubling setup.exe?)

Max.


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