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Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 21:33:46 +1100
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From: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>
To: "Mark Himsley" <mark@mdsh.com>, <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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Hi Mark,
	sorry for the long delay... fiscally supported work intervened.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Himsley [mailto:mark@mdsh.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 10:16 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Next version of setup.exe
> 
> 
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 11:01:12 +1100 you wrote:
> 
> >It is accessible via 
> >http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-20020225.exe.
> 
> Maybe the 'Locate package Directory' text box could fill the 
> width of the dialog slightly more

Patches (from anyone) accepted. 
 
> Maybe its my computer but selecting the 'Cygwin Setup' item 
> in the task bar or clicking anywhere on the dialog except for 
> the title bar does not top the dialog (it does get focus though).

It's everyones. Long term the chooser will be just-another-property page
(or something). Anyway, known bug (I'm assuming that you have the choose
open when this occurs). Can you please confirm my assumption?
 
> Using setup in two passes, one to doanload and one to 
> install. I selected to uninstall bison on the first pass, it 
> was installed and there was an update to happen. On the 
> second pass I was not able to uninstall as uninstall is not 
> one of the options but installing the latest version (which 
> was not downloaded) was in the list of options. When it got 
> to do the install there was an error indicating that the file 
> to install did not exist (which is correct). This leads me to 
> two observations: (1) what is the point of the uninstall 
> option in the download phase and (2) why did the install 
> phase offer to install a file that did not exist and did not 
> offer to uninstall that file.

'Download only' mode is a hack leveraging existing functionality, not a
truly separate mode. So it prevents installs... but apparently
uninstalls slipped through the gaps. Added as a todo-item to remove the
uninstalling, and the ability to choose that (or reinstalls).

As for the install phase, I'm not sure if this email was sent before or
after I fixed a critical bug in the local-install mode, you may find
it's fixed now.

Cheers,
Rob

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