X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,FORGED_YAHOO_RCVD,FREEMAIL_FROM,NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Olivier Lefevre Subject: Re: setup.exe considerations Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:28:34 +0100 Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <4D6BFD09 DOT 8020600 AT gmx DOT de> <4D6CD103 DOT 7000303 AT gmx DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On 3/1/2011 1:46 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: > Good idea, although that would entail unnecessary (and unwanted) > updates, for example, the Cygwin DLL would get updated whatever > package you installed, even if the package was built years ago. Indeed and upgrading Cygwin itself is the very thing I was trying to avoid. >> On the other hand, Cygwin package maintainers do a pretty good job of >> not breaking existing setups, so "update everything" (to the "curr" >> version) is usually a safe bet. > > True, and anything else is unsupported. Fair enough. -- O.L. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple