Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/10/25/12:40:00
Sorry Igor. One must always submit a patch in order to post to
this email list. Please reformulate all your email (retroactively)
to be posts in the form of a patch. Chris, is there any way to
block posts to this list that aren't patches? Oops! My email isn't
a patch either! ;-) ;-) ;-)
Seriously, no one expects all comments, suggestions, or requests to come
with patches (at least not on this list ;-) ) I hope no one really has
that impression. Generally, I think responses that suggest submitting a
patch are meant to indicate to the original poster that the request or
comment would see more immediate fruition if a patch is included. Sometimes
folks expect there's an idle group of developers just hanging around waiting
to jump on the next request from the list. Even if the current audience
doesn't have that perception, making a clear statement that someone who may
later search the archives can find is often helpful. So please don't be
offended by any response suggesting a patch... unless it makes you want to
submit one! ;-)
Larry
Original Message:
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From: Igor Pechtchanski pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:03:31 -0400 (EDT)
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Setup.exe and accessability
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 02:05:14PM +0200, Lars Bj?rndal wrote:
> >As far I can see, you can not select individual packages within
> >setup.exe without using the mouse. I'm blind, and therefore I can not
> >install cygwin without assistance from a sighted person. Is it
> >possible that this will be changed in the next version? Or is there a
> >posibility that I have not seen?
>
> The only thing that I can think of that could possibly be of use is
> the oft-mentioned command line options for setup.exe. Various people
> have mentioned that they were going to work on this but I've never
> seen anyone (besides Robert of course) follow through on fully realizing
> this to the point where you can install packages from the command line.
Adding keyboard shortcuts to the package selection screen (i.e., <Tab>bing
to the Action column and the checkboxes) would do it as well, I suppose.
"Did I phrase that sufficiently neutrally to avoid being asked to submit a
patch?" (C) R. Schulz.
Igor
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