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Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 17:58:18 -0500
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From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
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In-reply-to: <20010323174032.A30954@redhat.com> (message from Christopher
	Faylor on Fri, 23 Mar 2001 17:40:32 -0500)
Subject: Re: setup revisit
References: <009201c0b373$270a6ee0$0200a8c0 AT lifelesswks> <20010323174032 DOT A30954 AT redhat DOT com>


> When DJ rewrote setup.exe he opted not go go this route.  Maybe he can
> reiterate his reasons for doing this.

It was way bigger than it needed to be.  It was likely to become
instantly obsolete.  It was often incompatible with already-loaded
DLLs. There were GPL issues.