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RE: setup.exe updated




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com] 
> Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 1:34 PM
> To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: setup.exe updated
> 
> 
> On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 01:07:23PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> >I've copied across the new setup.  As there are no new 
> features (other 
> >than not crashing as much :}) I don't think this warrants an 
> >announcement.
> 
> Does this version understand bzip2 files?  It occurred to me 
> that I don't really have to change 'upset'.  I can just run 
> bzip2 when upset completes successfully.

No. Only HEAD understands setup.bz2. HEAD should get released in another
2-3 weeks.

For backward compatability, and to allow folk to change over (as they
do) bit by bit, I think we should have both the .ini and the .bz2 for a
while. I gave a sample post-upset line to create the bz2 file in an
earlier email.

Rob


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