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Re: Now that the new setup is here...
- From: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- To: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 01:22:40 -0500
- Subject: Re: Now that the new setup is here...
- References: <3C9F9092.2030700@ece.gatech.edu>
Okay, how about now?
--Chuck
Charles Wilson wrote:
> there were two things I was going to do:
>
> 1) move gettext from the contrib directory to the latest directory --
> and see if anybody barfs.
>
> 2) update bzip2 to the latest release -- which involves the grand
> library split thing (bzip2 -> bzip2 + libbz2_0). However, the name
> "libbz2_0" is incompatible with the old setup, and even 'cygcheck -c'
> gets confused prior to the cygwin-1.3.8 release.
>
> So, once I release libbz2_0, there's no going back to the old setup --
> and everybody MUST update to the new setup or their installation will
> become very confused.
>
> Are we confident enough in the current setup.exe to do this? I ask
> because we've already yanked it down ONCE ....
>
> --Chuck
>