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RE: 'redownload' aka download again and cygwin setup
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Cc: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 00:06:06 +1000
- Subject: RE: 'redownload' aka download again and cygwin setup
Ok, well we had 3 'I use it's', and 2 'I don't', and something thousand
'I don't or I do but am too apathetic to reply :]'.
So it's gone. If you have a corrupt file it will be detected during
download and/or before installation.
Rob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Collins
> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 9:15 PM
> To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
> Cc: cygwn@cygwin.com
> Subject: 'redownload' aka download again and cygwin setup
>
>
> Ok. Time for a straw poll.
>
> Please write back (to me or the list, your choice) whether
> you use the DELIBERATE 'download again' functionality of
> setup.exe or not. And if so, how often and for what purpose.
>
> This is to determine if certain functionality that -in
> essence- causes the 'accidental' redownloading of files in
> 'download only' mode.
>
> Both positive and negative answers are useful, but in the
> absence of any significant number of answers, I will assume
> that no-one uses the functionality.
>
> Unless there is a real user need for it, the functionality
> will be removed in the next setup.exe release.
>
> Rob
>
>
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