R: changing setup executable

[Marco Atzeri]

--- Gio 25/3/10, Rance Hall  ha scritto:

> This question is more for my personal
> curiosity than any problem I'm having.
> 
> I've noticed that setup.exe has been updated several times
> recently
> and I'm curious as to whats in setup that would need to be
> changed.
> 
> I understood setup-legacy when we switched from 1.5 to 1.7
> 
> As far as I know, setup.exe is little more than an
> intelligent
> downloader.  Since setup "appears" to download
> everything it needs
> from the net, why would setup itself need to be changed?
> 
> Just curious.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Rance

Hi Rance,
Setup is a program and as such has its own fixed bugs and 
feature improvements that require updated release.

See here from the source the Changelog

http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/setup/ChangeLog?rev=2.693&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=cygwin-apps


Regards
Marco 





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