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On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 23:07, Max Bowsher wrote: > On mingw-users@lists.sourceforge.net, Robert Collins wrote: > > > Hi, I'm the cygwin setup.exe maintainer. > ...snip... > > Patches to link setup.exe > > with your mingw ACR will be considered like all other patches - I'm not > > particularly for or against linking into it. > > My argument against: > > Wouldn't this be needless bloat for setup.exe? Why ship setup.exe with a C > library linked in when there is an acceptable one already present on just about > every Windows computer? (Unless of course there is a specific bug in msvcrt that > is troubling setup.exe?) Thats one of the things to take into consideration when the time comes to review such a patch. I don't see much point in arguing over something that doesn't exist. Rob
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