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Re: setup.exe 2.218.2.8/9 broken


On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 02:06:36PM -0400, Harig, Mark A. wrote:
> 
> 
> It's the "do not choose" portion of this solution that I hope setup.exe
> would avoid because it isn't paying attention to Murphy's Law.  The way
> setup.exe runs now there are (at least) two possible sources of errors:
> 
>   1) setup.exe's setup.ini has become corrupted.  This is well handled
> by setup.exe with its display of parsing errors.
> 
>   2) The user may have selected a Local Package Directory that contains
> non-setup.exe setup.ini files.  The message that is reported for this
> user error (that is, 'user selected a Local Package Directory that has
> non-setup.exe package files in it') is, unfortunately, the same message
> as that used to report problem 1, above.

Not being a PC person, are "setup.exe" and "setup.ini" the names used by
convention or is there some Windows requirement for these names.

If convention, could situation 2 be eliminated by adding a "cygwin" id
to the name e.g. setup-cyg.ini.  setup.exe (?setup-cyg.exe?) could look
for the new version preferentially, falling back to the old if not found.

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