On 24 April 2006 18:09, Max Bowsher wrote:
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> Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>> Perhaps, but as long as the Cygwin DLL etc do support 95, it seems that
>> Setup should be self contained and not require W95 users (all dozen of them
>> ;-)) to hunt down DLLs all over the internet. Perhaps I'll whip up a
>> regular Setup installer which includes the necessary redistributables.
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> Why bother?
>
> To put this in perspective, this affects only users who are using
> Windows 95 original edition (*not* any OSR version),
No, it affects Win95 original AND OSR1 and 2, but not OSR2.5, which came
with IE4. At least according to the earlier posts in this thread, anyway.
> *AND* have not
> installed a non-ancient Internet Explorer version.
This condition should read "AND have not installed ANY ie version ever"
> For this tiny minority, is it *really* worth the confusion of a separate
> Cygwin setup bundle, as compared with the alternative of just writing a
> FAQ entry explaining how to get the necessary prerequisites?
I agree with you here. There's not an awful lot of machines that have never
had IE on them.
cheers,
DaveK
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