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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 13:19:19 -0400
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From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
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In-reply-to: <phL=OEwh6eFTVxhsQd2RrxJOJiLh@4ax.com> (message from Michael Ring
	on Thu, 20 Apr 2000 18:39:53 +0200)
Subject: Re: How to find out if something has changed in the latest directory
References: <LLj+OI9oNaWLdHfEj1Zjk497C7hu AT 4ax DOT com> <200004201319 DOT JAA29390 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> <phL=OEwh6eFTVxhsQd2RrxJOJiLh AT 4ax DOT com>


> The problem is that you first need to change in the directory to find
> out if something has changed. Is is not very funny to change into 20
> directories just to find out that nothing has changed. Please have a
> look at ftp.gnu.org (and many other sites) to see what I mean.

The problem with the other way is that it gets messy fast.  DJGPP does
it that way, and it's messy.

Separate directories also allows us to set different ownerships on
each directory, so allow us greater flexibility in assigning
maintainership roles.

> >the ones from the cdrom don't really have version numbers.
> 
> Aehm... where is the version number in bash.tar.gz ???

The ones from the cdrom don't really have version numbers.

bash.tar.gz doesn't have a version number, so it must be from the cdrom.

The *next* release of bash will have a version number in the name.

> I have never looked that deep into setup.exe but how will this tool
> find out if something is new? I could not find any file with version
> info or md5-sums in it ??!!

It uses the filenames only.

> Or is there no plan to do incremental update with the current version
> of setup.exe ?

The current version is for new installs only.  Hopefully, by the time
incremental updates are needed, setup will support them.