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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:54:30 -0600
From: Jeremy Bopp <jeremy@bopp.net>
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Subject: Re: "mbox note: Can't open file://L:\ods\rtoy\Cygnus/ for reading:   Unrecognisable file format" errors whilst executing setup.exe
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On 1/28/2010 2:15 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 02:02:44PM -0600, Jeremy Bopp wrote:
>> On 1/28/2010 12:20 PM, Heath Kehoe wrote:
>>> Anyway, for now I'm going to just comment out the call to note() at
>>> install.cc:295 so that my users can do installations without having to
>>> dismiss that popup 52 times.
>>
>> Rather than build your own copy of setup.exe while you wait for this
>> defect to be fixed, why not use the --packages option for setup.exe to
>> select the set of packages you know you need from the command line?  If
>> your users would have difficulty with that, you could write a simple
>> batch file to wrap the setup.exe invocation.
> 
> OTOH, modifying source code and rolling your own copy is precisely why
> Free Software project exists in the first place.  IMO, this is a great
> way of dealing with this kind of situation.  I wish more people were
> willing to look at source code.

True enough, and hopefully Heath will send along the patches to fix the
problem.  It just seems in this case that distributing a locally built
setup.exe is a bit like hammering a finishing nail with a sledge hammer.
 Yeah, it works, but it takes far more effort than required to do the
job. :-)

-Jeremy

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