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Re: setup
- From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko at nexgo dot de>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 20:03:51 +0200
- Subject: Re: setup
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Warren Young writes:
> Replacing core infrastructure like this almost never works out
> smoothly, and usually fails outright. Itâs far better to remediate
> the code base in-place, if at all possible.
That's my sentiment as well, but that doesn't preclude the exploration
of alternatives.
> There have been a bunch of attempts in the past at replacing
> setup.exe. At least 3, that I can think of. All have fizzled.
These were?
Regards,
Achim.
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