[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rebase-4.1.0-1

Thu Mar 29 03:01:00 GMT 2012

On 28/03/2012 6:43 PM, JonY wrote:
> On 3/29/2012 04:21, Brian Wilson wrote:
>>>> I hope it doesn't leave the system in an unusable state if some DLL is
>>>> still in use.
>>> I may be wrong but I'm nearly certain that has been Corinna's goal from
>>> the start. She is sometimes just a little too M. A lot of her
>>> seemingly tireless efforts in getting Cygwin working are actually
>>> very subtle attempts to leave systems inoperational.
Nah, that's Microsoft's job.
>>>>> LOL
>>>> Yes, I'm sure she's diabolical that way (I guess M stands for methodical or
>> meticulous). It must be the long nights spent slaving over Cygwin code has
>> warped her thinking into providing helpful things like the automatic rebaseall
>> feature (thank you Corina, your work has not been unappreciated) which has
>> long been needed.
>>>> :) :) :)
>>> I don't know, I'd still feel better if there was an option to make it
> not automatic, like providing a new checkbox at the end of setup "Rebase
> DLLs after setup completes". It should probably be ticked by default for
> most users.

Murphy's Law says your first fork failure ever comes within minutes of 
disabling automatic rebase after a setup run ;)
I've had rebase errors show up after setup installed only new packages, 
even when the process calling fork() seemed to have nothing whatsoever 
to do with those packages.
Ryan
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