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Re: Updated: 1.7.0-34 (...and a plea)
On Dec 9 06:46, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > 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 :)
>
> Right, and since the 'release/' part is all in the .ini file anyway
> setup.exe doesn't actually need to be changed at all to do the
> switchover, it can be controlled entirely on sourceware just by telling
> upset which release dir goes with which ini file.
>
> Here's my question: Do we really need to inflict this 8.7GB of churn[1]
> on every mirror just for what seems to me to be a cosmetic reason for
> wanting the directory name to be "release/"? Can't we just say that
> release-2/ is now what the dir is called and move on? In other words,
> the switchover procedure would be "mv setup-1.7.exe setup.exe".
Maybe the discussion looked a bit strange but that was actually
what Chris and I already had agreed upon :) The other point was that
release-2 needs to become an entire separated directory instead of
a unionfs, that's what Chris meant by saying to make release-2 a
first-class dir. So it's not *only* a "mv setup-1.7.exe setup.exe".
Corinna
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