[RFU] mingw64-* crt and headers update, including win32api

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Fri Nov 16 15:35:00 GMT 2012


On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 04:02:58PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Nov 16 09:52, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 12:13:43PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >On Nov 16 18:25, JonY wrote:
>> >>Also, do I need to manually update the md5?
>> >
>> >No, that's performed automatically by the upset script.
>> 
>> Actually the md5 files are updated by a script which considers all of
>> the ftp public area, not just Cygwin.  upset does notice if the file
>> is out-of-date but it doesn't touch it otherwise.
>
>Ah, thanks.  Learn something new every day.

FWIW, it's a horrendously complicated, inefficient, and error-prone
script.  I've started rewriting it several times but shiny objects have
always intervened.

cgf



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