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Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 19:19:20 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: cinstall location
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On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 08:01:46AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf AT redhat DOT com] 
>> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 1:42 AM
>> To: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com
>> Subject: Re: cinstall location
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 01:32:08AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>> >	sometime ago in a conversation about cinstall and the 
>> all-in-one setup 
>> >the topic of cinstall's location was rasied. At that point I 
>> didn't see 
>> >any need to move cinstall.... but I'd actually like to see 
>> it moved to 
>> >the cygwin-apps repository now.
>> >
>> >Why?
>> >So that we can add a build dependency on a mingw libstdc++, 
>> and be done 
>> >with reinventing multiple wheels.
>> >
>> >I think that while moving won't be trauma-less, it will 
>> result in more 
>> >rapid development, and that can only be a good thing. It 
>> will also make 
>> >having a cinstall -src tarball easier, and the cygwin src snapshots 
>> >smaller.
>> >
>> >It's not intended to lessen the link between cinstall and cygwin at 
>> >all, rather to make building it easier.
>> >
>> >What do you think?
>> 
>> I have no problems moving it.  It never really fit into the 
>> winsup hierarchy.  I put it there because I didn't want to 
>> make a new upper level directory on src and there was no 
>> cygwin-apps at the time.
>> 
>> Let's rename the directory to 'setup', though.
>> 
>> FWIW, I think I will physically move the cvs directory to a 
>> new location, wiping out all hints of cinstall from winsup.
>
>Yeah, I was going to suggest we do something like that. I've copied it
>over to /cvs/cygwin-apps/setup, chowned it to be owned by cygwin-apps,
>and test checking out the setup200202 branch - all of which worked fine.
>
>
>So... want me to remove the (now obsolete) cinstall directory, or would
>you like to do the honours?

I've removed it.

cgf