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 Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 09:23:00 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install? Message-ID: <20030215082300.GF5822@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20030214182615.GA20996@redhat.com> <20030214205048.GA62525@ozzmosis.com> <20030214215957.GD11760@redhat.com> <1045262539.1190.41.camel@localhost> <20030215003430.GB17991@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030215003430.GB17991@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 07:34:30PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 09:42:19AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > >On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 08:59, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>I suppose so, but, again, it seems like many people *recently* are > >>unaware of the setup program entirely. > > > >Hmm, I think we should add a new screen to setup.exe. > > > >After the install completes.. > > > >"Your cygwin install is now ready to use. Please run setup.exe again > >if you want to Install new packages, Remove installed packages, or > >Update your install with the latest versions of your installed > >packages." > > I like it. Apparently it is extremely confusing to many people that running > "setup.exe" again is how you update your system, Microsoft conventions not > withstanding. So... hey, why is it called "setup"? Isn't it, in the first place the "Cygwin Package Manager"? "cpm"? Even the suffix of the archive files could be cpm... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/