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RFP: UPX (Was Re: reducing binary distribution size with UPX)
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Lapo Luchini" <lapo at lapo dot it>,"CygWin-Apps" <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 00:04:36 +1100
- Subject: RFP: UPX (Was Re: reducing binary distribution size with UPX)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lapo Luchini [mailto:lapo@lapo.it]
> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 11:48 PM
> But if a cygwin
> native version is needed nonetheless I could volunteer to package it.
IMO we should have a fully self-hosted distribution. At the moment, with
the _single_ exception of postgresql, every package here can be rebuilt
from source, to a version equivalent to what the package maintainer
posted, on a cygwin system, with the tools that the distribution has. So
yes, UPX should be a package before it's used to make packages.
I vote for including UPX... and Lapo makes two. Do we need a third? And
are there any objections?
Rob