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 content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: RE: Should setup suggests to downgrade? [WAS: Lillypond for cygwin] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 00:10:37 +1000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Robert Collins" To: "Cliff Hones" , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g36EAtC27974 > -----Original Message----- > From: Cliff Hones [mailto:cliff@aonix.co.uk] > Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 12:07 AM Thanks for the feedback.. I'll have a look in the logs tomorrow. > [I've already mentioned I'm not happy with the current > download mode - I think it loses a lot of its potential > power, and is also confusing, by being intertwined with the > current install state. And yet, I can see a lot of annoyed folk if setup in download mode tried to download *everything* not present by default. It's easy enough to tell setup to download everything regardless of local state - click all categorie's action symbol to redownload, and you are done. Does that address your concern? Anyway, I may misunderstand what you meant, so feel free to elaborate or patch. > Indeed, I see little value in > separating the download and install as currently implemented. > Seeing no comment after my earlier mail, do I assume I'm > either doing something wrong, or nobody else finds > this a problem?] Simply use the 'install from internet' mode. It downloads and installs in one foul swoop. > I hope you find these comments constructive. I do feel > setup.exe is a great tool, though it still has a few rough edges. Thank you, and agreed. Rob -- 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/