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Date: | Wed, 12 Oct 2005 09:21:20 -0700 |
From: | Jim Kleckner <jek-cygwin1 AT kleckner DOT net> |
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To: | Matthew England <mengland AT mengland DOT net> |
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Subject: | Re: Why is setup.exe so difficult? Am I missing something? |
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Matt England wrote: > I find cygwin's setup.exe extremely difficult to understand, and over > the years I've used it, I have found it somewhat buggy (unless the > "bugs" I find are really just "features" that I don't understand). > > The biggest question: why do myself and everyone else in my software > development group that I manage (as well as everyone else with whom I've > spoken over the years regarding cygwin) find cygwin's setup.exe so > perplexing? One confusing thing that could be improved is to clearly label the radio buttons as "Default Action:" and to change "Curr" to be something like "Update" or "Latest". The very non-standard way that these buttons interact with the list is confusing and every little bit of help will help. A more standard way would be a selection-action interface. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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