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On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 10:01:53AM -0800, Linda Walsh wrote:
>Some people asked me for a "patch".  I find that laughable -- I'm sure
>it would go the way of the UTF-8 patch that was proposed with code
>several months back.  The patch would quietly (or noisily) be killed on
>the cygwin-patches list by any of several excuses seen here.

Your inexplicable anger aside, patches to setup.exe are accepted all of
the time, as Igor can attest to.  setup.exe != cygwin1.dll.  Different
people support that program.  Igor has added lots of functionality to
setup.exe by submitting patches.

cgf

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