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Subject: Re: The install dir
From: Robert Collins <rbcollins AT cygwin DOT com>
To: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten AT thorstenkampe DOT de>
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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Date: 13 Mar 2003 00:37:29 +1100

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On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 22:29, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> * Robert Collins (03-03-12 06:18 +0100)
> > On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 15:46, Patrick Nelson wrote:
> >>> Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> >> ----------------->>>>
> >> I don't have the slightest idea what you are talking about The setup=20
> >> directory is *not* temporary. Neither the packages are deleted after=20
> >> installation nor the older ones after updating.
> >> ----------------->>>>
> >>=20
> >> So the older ones are maintained and that setup directory is needed as=
 is...
> >> OK!  Sounds like you do have the slightest idea then.  NNTR
> >=20
> > However, Thorsten is wrong.
>=20
> Well, to be exact: no. Patrick Nelson has a misleading habit of=20
> quoting.

Ah, ok. I haven't followed the thread closely.

...
> Maybe you as a "native speaker" can tell what RC meant by this:
> | do you get the structure of it?  I mean setup wont recognize that it ha=
s a
> | newer version in a another of its temp directories?=20

Who is RC there? Not me.

Guessing at the meaning of the question, setup depends on the .ini files
for versioning information when installing from the cache alone. If *no*
ini files are present, it will examine all the files that look like
packages and try to guess the pacakge name and version.

So, having 7 copies on python on a CD will work fine, and they will all
be selectable (one at a time :}) from setup.

Rob
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GPG key available at: <http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt>.

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