Updated: 1.7.0-34 (...and a plea)

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue Dec 9 13:48:00 GMT 2008


On Dec  9 11:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Dec  8 14:55, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 07:16:51PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > >On Dec  8 13:00, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > >> I think that when 1.7 is adopted
> > >> 
> > >> release-2 -> release
> > >> release -> release-deprecated
> > >> 
> > >> and we make setup.exe changes to accommodate that.
> > >
> > >I was just going to agree but ... does that work?  The idea is that
> > >people still using an old setup will get the old release.  Since
> > >"release" is fixed in old versions of setup, it might be more feasible
> > >to stick to release-2 or to use something along the lines you suggested
> > >at one point, like, say, "release-nt".
> > 
> > Ah, right.  I wasn't thinking that people who had the old release might not
> > want to update.  Too bad we didn't have a mechanism in setup.exe to provide
> > a warning to people before updating.
> > 
> > So, release-2 becomes a first-class directory, setup.exe -> setup-deprecated.exe
> > setup-1.7 -> setup.exe?
> 
> Sounds good to me.

Uh, I just remembered something I forgot so far.  We don't even need two
setup.exe versions.  Setup-1.7 decides which setup ini file to use
dependent on the Windows version.  NTs get setup-2.ini, 9Xes get
setup.ini.  It even changes its layout a bit.  For instance, for 9Xes
you still get the choice of text/bin mounts, for NTs you don't.  So we
really only need a single setup.exe in future, AFAICS :)


Corinna

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