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Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:21:59 -0500
From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
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I'm up and running again, this time with Windows 7 RC x64 (at least for 
now), so I'm getting my first intro to the joys of UAC, which is 
fortunately more sane in Win7 than it is in Vista.

I now realize that there are a number of packages, in both the distro 
and Ports, which still need .manifest files added for their binaries.  I 
think the best solution is to let cygport detect susceptible apps and 
generate .manifest files automatically.

1. AFAICS, this affects EXEs with names containing "install", "patch", 
"setup", or "update".  Are there any more patterns?

2. According to MSDN[1], the name attribute of the assemblyIdentity 
subelement should be uniquely named in a Organization.Division.Name 
format.  Our existing manifests don't do that; should we?  Does it matter?

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa374191(VS.85).aspx


Yaakov


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