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Re: [PATCH] setup.exe


On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 08:41:05AM +0100, Achim Gratz wrote:
>Christopher Faylor writes:
>> You'd really be much better served to submit one patch at a time.
>
>Noted.
>
>> If you look at bootstrap.sh, you will see why I'm puzzled why this should be
>> needed.  The script is intended to be run from the build directory which
>> should be separate from the source directory.
>
>In all the combinations I tried, this didn't result in a working build
>environment, but let me try again.  It is possible I got fooled by
>CVSgrab and there's still something missing in my source tree.
>
>> "strip" as a target is really not a good idea.
>
>I'm not wedded to the name and I really only intend to use "upx" myself
>(whose name is also up for grabs if you don't like it).
>
>> Who is the target audience for this?
>
>I'm in the process of updating our age-old "IT approved" Cygwin
>installation to 1.7.x.  One of the things I need to provide is the
>ability to "freeze" and "roll back" installations to some known state
>and do it from a script.

I'm really not too keen on adding hacks to setup so that people can
use it for other than its intended purpose.  The code is already
a complicated obtuse mishmash and adding more stuff which would
be used by only one person doesn't seem like a good idea.

cgf


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