X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT,TW_YG X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 16:24:20 +0400 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: Andrey Repin Message-ID: <1582533978.20120302162420@mtu-net.ru> To: Achim Gratz , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Recent upgrade to wish leads to a problem In-Reply-To: <87wr73plij.fsf@Rainer.invalid> References: <70952A932255A2489522275A628B97C3129F4CE5@xmb-sjc-233.amer.cisco.com> <20120301181416.GB28713@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20120301182805.GD28713@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <87pqcwoy16.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <1330650919.6952.8.camel@YAAKOV04> <87wr73plij.fsf@Rainer.invalid> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 Greetings, Achim Gratz! > As long as setup.exe doesn't handle "recommendations", how about having > an (empty) package "X-application" (or whatever better name you come up > with) that all such applications depend on? I'm still not sure how to > get the actual warning to the user, but for starters the postinstall > script could fail when it doesn't find the Cygwin X server and leave a > file that cygcheck looks for otherwise. Nothing stops you from showing a warning/opening a README to the user in the same postinstall script. And there's more, and better, ways to check for configured X server, I bet. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 02.03.2012, <16:22> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple