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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 18:50:45 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Setup testing
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On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 06:49:20PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 10:33:34AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>>
>>I think it's time we got a little wider testing done for setup.exe...
>>
>>here's what I'd like to do.
>>
>>1) have a snapshot of setup.exe included on the cygwin snapshots page,
>>built when a cygwin1.dll snapshot is built.
>>
>>2) Ask for limited (ie they email (say) me first) user testing and
>>feedback. 
>>
>>I'm not interested in provoking a feedback storm on the cygwin mailing
>>list, but I think that 'idiot user' feedback is needed - even though we
>>aren't quite happy ourselves yet.
>>
>>1) Should be a trivial change to Chris' current snapshot script, and 2)
>>I'm happy to have as my problem :}
>
>Modifying the snapshot page to include setup.exe is also another
>challenge.
>
>I could put a link on the main page, if that is interesting.  I would
>rather not be responsible for setup.exe snapshots, though.

I'm also happy to include another web page for setup.exe snapshots.

cgf

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