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From:	Keith Christian <keith1christian AT gmail DOT com>
Date:	Tue, 11 Jun 2019 14:52:15 -0600
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Subject:	Re: setup.exe enhancement request, proceed on error after logging error to setup.log
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Thanks for the feedback.

Even if a file were missing that might cause issues in a few
dependency chains, why not allow the install to continue?

Suppose a file was missing halfway through?  Why stop the whole
install for the sake of a few missing files?  Let the install continue
for those packages that aren't missing files, write a message to the
log, and put up a dialog after both the successful installs and the
rebasing are done.  User clicks OK and uses Cygwin in its current
state, or she/he restarts the install from a different mirror.  Pick
up the missing files for the few packages and all done.

This would ultimately save time and effort.

Whatever the case, if a file is missing, setup will have to be run
again to fix the problems, by pointing to another mirror, etc.

Thanks for listening.


On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 12:39 PM Brian Inglis
<Brian DOT Inglis AT systematicsw DOT ab DOT ca> wrote:
>
> On 2019-06-11 11:19, Achim Gratz wrote:
> > Keith Christian writes:
> >> Would the maintainers (Achim?  Jon?) be willing to consider an option
> >> box log errors to the setup.log file and "Skip non-fatal errors and
> >> continue?"
> >
> > You'd first have to teach setup to distinguish between fatal and
> > non-fatal errors.  A missing package archive is always fatal as far as
> > setup is concerned (how did that happen anyway?).
>
> A mirror update failure, an unsafe mirror update process, or the latter leading
> to the former.
>
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