setup.exe considerations

[Olivier Lefevre]

On 3/1/2011 1:46 PM, Andy Koppe wrote:
> Good idea, although that would entail unnecessary (and unwanted)
> updates, for example, the Cygwin DLL would get updated whatever
> package you installed, even if the package was built years ago.

Indeed and upgrading Cygwin itself is the very thing I was trying
to avoid.

>> On the other hand, Cygwin package maintainers do a pretty good job of
>> not breaking existing setups, so "update everything" (to the "curr"
>> version) is usually a safe bet.
>
> True, and anything else is unsupported.

Fair enough.

-- O.L.


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