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Re: setup.exe now fast!
- From: Andrew Schulman <schulman dot andrew at epamail dot epa dot gov>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:43:25 -0500
- Subject: Re: setup.exe now fast!
- References: <if7trp$rat$1@dough.gmane.org>
> I recently found that new 'setup.exe' works much better.
>
> Before new changes 'setup.exe' require up to 10 minute to make
> list of available packages if they stored on Samba share in intranet
> and some quickly if they stored locally on hard drive.
>
> As I understand this change introduced in version 2.738:
>
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2010-12/msg00029.html
>
> and author (Jon Turney) was starred:
>
> http://cygwin.com/goldstars/
>
> By now 'setup.exe' was started in 10 sec!
Yes, it's really amazing. Big thanks to Jon for the time we'll all save
every time we run setup.
In the past, I always assumed that setup was slow because it was doing Lots
Of Very Important Work. Now I see it was just slow!
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