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Re: RFP: UPX (Was Re: reducing binary distribution size with UPX)
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- To: Robert Collins <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Cc: Lapo Luchini <lapo at lapo dot it>, CygWin-Apps <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 08:28:20 -0500
- Subject: Re: RFP: UPX (Was Re: reducing binary distribution size with UPX)
- References: <FC169E059D1A0442A04C40F86D9BA760014BC8@itdomain003.itdomain.net.au>
Robert Collins wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lapo Luchini [mailto:lapo@lapo.it]
> > Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 11:48 PM
>
> > But if a cygwin
> > native version is needed nonetheless I could volunteer to package it.
>
> IMO we should have a fully self-hosted distribution. At the moment, with
> the _single_ exception of postgresql, every package here can be rebuilt
> from source, to a version equivalent to what the package maintainer
> posted, on a cygwin system, with the tools that the distribution has. So
> yes, UPX should be a package before it's used to make packages.
>
> I vote for including UPX... and Lapo makes two. Do we need a third? And
> are there any objections?
>
Does UPX come with an API library that you can just use in setup?
Earnie.
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