setup.exe: something besides C++?

[Pavel Tsekov]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Joe Buehler wrote:

> I don't want to start a huge flamewar, but have any of the setup.exe
> developers thought about changing setup.exe so that it is written
> in something a little easier to work on, like perl/tk?  People have
> been asking for various enhancements for quite a while now, so
> obviously it is not easy to change setup...

But then, it would become _huge_. You'd have to download a bunch of other
software just to install Cygwin.

Btw, it doesn't seem that the problem with implementing features is the 
language being used for development, but the lack of time.


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