On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 09:57:01PM +0100, Nick Lowe wrote: >> It's bad etiquette to derail an email thread with unrelated questions. > >I certainly didn't mean to derail it, the other points were ancillary >to the implicit point that I intended to make which is that if the >executable was digitally signed, any potential corruption would >immediately be flagged by the operating system.
There is no evidence that setup.exe (which is signed) was corrupt. It has/had what we call in the software industry "a bug". Digital signing is not going to solve that. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
