Using the Windows version of Mark's upgrader requires a working cygwin install and some other utilities like ncftpput. It's not going to just work. So it's not an automagic install, but anyone who likes working in a unix-like command line environment will probably want to install cygwin anyway. (I put the cygwin bin dir in my windows path, this way things like rsync, ls, ssh all run from a regular Win32 command line. I rarely use the full bash shell.)

It's also probably much better to do a real cygwin install anyway, because distributing =just= the cygwin dll is a violation of its licencse (GPL).

And as a matter of fact, my current cygwin install is only about 150 MB, and that includes a full set of devel tools, so it's possible to make it a reasonable sized install.

--Nathan