No more UPX

Robert Collins rbcollins@cygwin.com
Sat Apr 12 04:30:00 GMT 2003


On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 10:46, Luciano wrote:
> I got a new version of setup.exe yesterday and I was VERY glad to see 
> that it was not compressed. I could finally hack the main dialog and 
> make it bigger.
> 
> I'll never understand why so many hundreds of thousands of 
> programmers still insist on making those tiny narrow dialogs that 
> force you scroll vertically and horizontally every two seconds to get 
> a glimpse of the data it holds...

Uhmm, because we support users on 640x480 screen resolution, and we have
it as a high priority to make the dang thing resizable!

Uh, and setup.exe is normally compressed, you must have gotten one
during a race condition with a mirror. It is compressed on the server.

Rob
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