Re: Setup, update thyself

[Warren Young <warren at etr-usa dot com>]

On 4/11/2010 1:13 PM, Rance Hall wrote:
> The standard way to do this would be to write a script that wgets (or
> other windows alternative) the setup.exe on the web into a staging
> area.

Firefox and Adobe do it with a separate updater program.

I'm not recommending that for Cygwin, but setup.exe could be its own 
updater.  It could make a copy of its own executable to a temp location, 
and launch that with a flag that makes it go fetch and replace the 
non-temp copy and relaunch it.

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