Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Uh, I just remembered something I forgot so far. We don't even need two > setup.exe versions. Setup-1.7 decides which setup ini file to use > dependent on the Windows version. NTs get setup-2.ini, 9Xes get > setup.ini. It even changes its layout a bit. For instance, for 9Xes > you still get the choice of text/bin mounts, for NTs you don't. So we > really only need a single setup.exe in future, AFAICS :)
Right, and since the 'release/' part is all in the .ini file anyway setup.exe doesn't actually need to be changed at all to do the switchover, it can be controlled entirely on sourceware just by telling upset which release dir goes with which ini file. Here's my question: Do we really need to inflict this 8.7GB of churn[1] on every mirror just for what seems to me to be a cosmetic reason for wanting the directory name to be "release/"? Can't we just say that release-2/ is now what the dir is called and move on? In other words, the switchover procedure would be "mv setup-1.7.exe setup.exe". Users who continue to use an old setup.exe would still get the 1.5 distro until they redownload it, but that's okay because you need the new setup.exe to cope with 1.7 changes anyway so that's a feature not a bug. Users who do redownload setup.exe will get the right one predicated on whether they're running NT or not. Brian [1]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/ftp]$ du -hs release release-2 5.2G release 3.5G release-2
