On Aug 7, 2015, at 1:47 PM, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com> wrote: > > On Aug 6 17:57, Achim Gratz wrote: >> >> I would consider this a release candidate. Some more testing with >> interactive and ad-hoc installs would be useful, though. > > I have a vague idea that setup should ideally be part of the Cygwin > distro package set. So setup updates itself, and it would be possible > to handle public "test" releases. > > The issue of overwriting setup while setup is running could be worked > around by setup first copying itself to a intermediate filename (e.g. > .setup.exe) and then exce'ing that copy.
You’d have to couple this either with a MoveFileEx(…, MOVEFILE_DELAY_UNTIL_REBOOT) call or a background task that replaces /bin/setup.exe with %LOCALAPPDATA%/Temp/setup-v$next.exe. This would be a nice point to give setup.exe a CLI language for installing packages in yum/apt-get fashion, too. (Yes, yes, I know, SHTDI.)
