X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 11:24:33 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Eliminating -mno-cygwin from gcc. Message-ID: <20070205162433.GA9486@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <020d01c748b4$62d8b170$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <20070205030939.GB24653@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <45C6A0DC.3010104@users.sourceforge.net> <20070205033101.GE24653@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <45C6A793.8020008@users.sourceforge.net> <45C6ABAB.8030500@cygwin.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 10:06:41AM -0600, Matthew Woehlke wrote: >Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >>The discussion has been to augment 'setup.exe' in a way as to provide users >>with feedback about "important" package changes in general. It has come up >>in the context of the gcc change but would have to apply generally. >>"Important" would be defined by the maintainer by some mechanism. >>Presumably, every release of package 'foo' does not trigger the "important" >>flag. ;-) > >Hmm, there might be a catch-22 here. How do we force people to update >their setup.exe? Doesn't setup.exe warns if the setup.ini being used has a different version number? In any event, we are, of course, going to send out details in cygwin-announce. >(What about a change that does not affect setup.exe itself? Maybe a >package that most things depend on that allows a post-install script to >display a dialog? Or was that the plan already?) I suppose that you could add a post-install script but it is too late at that point. This would force a normal cygwin user into a reinstall frenzy from which they might not ever recover. It might be better than nothing, though. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/