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Re: self-upgrading setup.exe
- To: Robert Collins <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Subject: Re: self-upgrading setup.exe
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 08:31:44 -0500
- CC: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
- References: <1004611467.2407.11.camel@lifelesswks>
Sounds nice, but I don't like the transparent idea as I've actually
chosen to not upgrade on occasion.
Earnie.
Robert Collins wrote:
>
> This is a proof-of-concept patch.
>
> The concept is to have setup.exe self upgrade - replaceing the current
> open file.
>
> When combined with parameters, this can be transparent to the user -
> setup can run through to the point it was at before the upgrade need was
> detected and carried out.
>
> In the longer term, this is a _significant_ step towards being able to
> give setup full dpkg/rpm capabilities _AND_ to allowing setup.exe to
> potentially link to cygwin1.dll (via Openlibrary) or use other cygwin
> programs as part of it's operation.
>
> Conceptually that requires more than this - it requires dependency
> ordered downloads, and some more intelligence that setup has today.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Name: replaceself.patch
> replaceself.patch Type: Plain Text (text/plain)
> Encoding: 7bit
>
> Name: copyandspawn.cc
> copyandspawn.cc Type: text/x-c
> Encoding: 7bit
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Earnie.
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