Mail Archives: cygwin-apps/2002/02/23/12:46:15
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Michael A Chase" <mchase AT ix DOT netcom DOT com>; <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 23:04
Subject: RE: Setup.exe subdirectories
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michael A Chase [mailto:mchase AT ix DOT netcom DOT com]
>>
>> I just tried downloading the new grep package in one
>> setup.exe run and then
>> installing it in another. Until I deleted the old setup.ini
>> in the base
>> directory, I got message IDS_OLD_SETUPINI when I tried to
>> install from the
>> local directory.
>>
>> It looks like the setup.ini routines in ini.cc and iniparse.y are
>> overwriting setup_timestamp and setup_version with the last
>> setup.ini file
>> read. If that happens to be the newest, everyone is happy.
>> If it isn't
>> things could be confused.
>>
>> Would it be worthwhile for me to try to make sure only the
>> newest setup.ini
>> gets used?
>
> No. They are all meant to be used. What could happen is that the warning
> specifies which sites are out of date, and allows the user to turn the
warning
> off in future. Otherwise, I think we will want to eliminate the warning,
as
> > with multiple sites and merged ini's it's kinda obsolete.
Right now all the warning says is that setup.ini is out of date, not which.
Because there is only one setup_version recorded, it only applies to the
last setup.ini parsed. Perhaps the warning should be moved to just after
the call to yyparse() in do_remote_ini() and find_routine(). The site URL
or directory could also be added to the parse error message box.
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