Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <3E4D5CFB.1090509@rfk.com> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:17:47 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)" Reply-To: lhall AT rfk DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: andrew clarke CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install? References: <20030214182615 DOT GA20996 AT redhat DOT com> <20030214205048 DOT GA62525 AT ozzmosis DOT com> <20030214210722 DOT GA63088 AT ozzmosis DOT com> In-Reply-To: <20030214210722.GA63088@ozzmosis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit andrew clarke wrote: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 07:50:48AM +1100, andrew clarke wrote: > > >>Section 2 of the FAQ might also put people off using Setup because it's >>described as a "work-in-progress" and seemingly a bit of a moving target. > > > Actually, just out of interest, will new Setup programs always be > backward-compatible (within reason) with packages designed for old > versions of Setup? The point being, a user should expect to be > able to install an old .tar.bz2 file from a local directory using > the latest version of Setup. If not, it should be recommended that > users keep their old version of setup.exe (and not just overwrite > it with the newest setup.exe) because the new version may not be able > to install packages designed for the old version, because it's a > work-in-progress. > > "Expect features and functionality to change." > > Unless the FAQ is inaccurate! There are no plans to change the format of the packages. I can't foresee a need to ever do this. Don't worry about such things unless you've been given explicit need to do so. It will give you ulcers! ;-) > --08:06:16-- http://cygwin.com/setup.exe > > 4 Last-Modified: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 00:50:47 GMT > > Hmm, nobody is working on it after all? The new version of setup is being actively worked on. Need proof? Check out the cygwin-apps email archive. There's been lots of work since 7/4/2002. It makes for good reading if this is the kind of information you crave. -- Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/