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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 11:09:43 -0800
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: CygWin Installation
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Sy,

It is. Or, more accurately, they are. A single archive would be 
unwieldy and somewhat at odds with the rapidly changing set of packages 
and the presence of very many packages of less than universal interest.

You can download individual tarballs (source tarballs are separate) 
from any of a large set of mirror sites and then simulate the actions 
of the installer.

But as we've seen here, people who try that fare rather worse than 
those who work with installer.

Really, if the Cygwin Setup.exe installer is the worst thing you've 
seen, you've had a blessed existence in your 30 years of computer use.

Randall Schulz


At 10:57 2003-01-31, Sy or Ursula Bensky wrote:
>The installation would be much simplified if it was available as a 
>tarball or.ZIP file.
>
>Sy Bensky
>
>On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 09:52  AM, Max Bowsher wrote:
>
>>subensky wrote:
>>>In over 30 years of computer/it experience I have never seen 
>>>anything as convoluted and difficult to use as your CygWin download/installer.
>>
>>And the point of this email was ... ?
>>
>>Constructive criticism is welcome. Useless whining is not.
>>
>>
>>Max.


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