Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/2000/07/06/16:31:31
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 03:54:44PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
>
>> The list of mirrors seems sort of cramped. Could it just list
>> the names of the systems rather than the full URL?
>
>If you do that, you won't know which are ftp and which are http.
>Besides, they just fall off the right edge anyway :-)
>
>> The "username/password" part of the download threw me. We
>> didn't need this for the old setup program. I didn't fill
>> out anything and it seemed to work. Is this required or
>> can it be marked as (optional)?
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>It is optional. In the old setup, it would ask you for the password
>only if the proxy returned an error requiring it. In the new one, it
>asks for all the internet options at once.
Ok, then I think it should be marked as optional.
>> I used ftp.freesoftware.com as the mirror to download from and it gave
>> me an error because there was 750 people logged in and the maximum was
>> hit. Unfortunately, the error showed up *behind* the "Cygwin
>> Setup/Downloading/setup.ini/Connecting..." screen.
>
>Hmmm, it showed up in front on mine. I suppose I can force it with a
>suitable flag.
>
>> When I clicked on the OK on the error screen I got an "Unable to get
>> setup.ini from..." error, as expected. But, then clicking on the OK
>> aborted the setup. Would it be possible to add a "Choose another
>> mirror" (or maybe a Back -> button) and an "Exit" button to make what is
>> going to happen clearer?
>
>Adding a "back" option is best, or have it automatically return to the
>mirrors list upon failure. Something to add in the future, no doubt.
>Errors aren't robustly handled yet.
I thought about having it return automatically to the mirrors list but
I thought that some people might want to be able to give up at that
point.
>> I wonder if we should always retrieve the setup.ini via http from
>> sourceware. That would ensure that the latest version was always
>> retrieved.
>
>No, because if the setup.ini files don't match the ftp site then setup
>gets very confused.
Yeah but I'm still concerned about the user being confused if he accesses
an out-of-date mirror.
cgf
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