RE: Now that the new setup is here...

["Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>]

> Okay, it's been a week -- and nobody seems to have noticed.  That's 
> promising.  So, I'll go out on a limb here, and predict that cgf's 
> massive reorg of the sourceware/cygwin dir structure won't 
> upset setup 
> (no pun intended).  

Urrgh.

> However, it may upset people who are anal 
> about what 
> setup does inside it's own "localdir" playground, and may 
> lead to lots 
> of duplication and unnecessary re-downloads -- which is bound 
> to cause 
> consternation.
> 
> But those are social problems, not technical ones.

And ones I have little sympathy for. Setup is a technical tool, not a
social one. It's not aimed at being the best downloader, only the best
installer. Mirroring that handles directory relocation is a sitecopy
style task...
 
> >>> 2) update bzip2 to the latest release -- which involves the grand 
> >>> library split thing (bzip2 -> bzip2 + libbz2_0).  
> However, the name 
> >>> "libbz2_0" is incompatible with the old setup, and even 
> 'cygcheck -c' 
> >>> gets confused prior to the cygwin-1.3.8 release.
> > 
> > But I didn't do this.
> 
> 
> So, what's the opinion here?  Should we cross the Rubicon?

Go. GO. GO!

Rob