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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 07:42:31 +0100
From: Martin Kudlich <martin DOT kudlich AT siemens DOT com>
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Subject: Re: tar and gzip
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Krzysiek Pawlik wrote:

>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>| All that you have to do is comply with the GPL.  Simply put, that
>| means that you have to distribute the sources for cygwin1.dll,
>| tar.exe, and gzip.exe with your program.
>
>I think that I'll have to make it in other way... The updater package
>consisted of four files: iUpdate.py, tar.exe, gzip.exe and cygwin1.dll, if
>I'm suposed to bundle also the sources for the last three files imagine the
>size of this package! It will be bigger than the main program package
>itself.
>
Why not simply search for the tools in your script, and if they are not 
installed output a message saying that your script requires tar and gzip 
tobe installed under Cygwin?
Martin Kudlich

>  
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