Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3CAC7857.3050307@cox.net> Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 10:59:19 -0500 From: "David A. Cobb" Organization: CoxNet User User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020401 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Should setup suggests to downgrade? [WAS: Lillypond for Cygwin] References: <3CA8B996.9050302@cox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: >Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: > >>By the way, are you using the latest setup.exe from Cygwin? Setup.exe >>should never suggest to downgrade, I think. >> > >Found the answer in the README that comes with setup: it's still a >TODO item: > > TODO > [..] > * Don't downgrade if the curr version is <= installed? > >Btw, this should apply to test too, I think. > I agree. It's annoying at best to install a group of test packages and then, the next time I run setup, if I don't watch carefully they would revert to the current. An obvious problem is having everyone use a revision-level scheme that tests correctly. I see at least two very different schemes here. Also, setup would need to parse, e.g. 1.9-3 so that it's less than 1.10-1. I'll have to do a more thorough survey to see if a simple minded algorithm would catch all the cases. > > >Jan. > -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate "By God's Grace I am a Christian man, by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim; R. M. French, tr. Life is too short to tolerate crappy software. . -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/