RFC: setup package in Base

[Ken Brown]

On 4/10/2018 2:12 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> In order to speed up the adoption of the latest setup.exe, would it make
> sense to ship it as a package?  Here is an initial draft of what this
> might look like:
> 
> https://github.com/cygwinports/setup/blob/master/setup.cygport
> 
> Note that the executable itself is version/release-numbered so that we
> never have to deal with replacing a running executable (setup itself).

I like the idea.  One thing to think about is how to deal with the 
situation in which a buggy version of setup fails to update itself. 
Maybe we should modify the existing warning that's issued when a newer 
version of setup is available.  It could say that setup should update 
itself, but it could also give a link to a script that does this 
manually in case something goes wrong.

> Also, as an alternative to a simple symlink, what about a wrapper script
> (such as the attached) that would allow more "yum-like" commands like
> "cygsetup update" or "cygsetup install foo bar"?

I like this too.  There seems to be no downside, since the wrapper 
accepts all existing setup flags.

Ken