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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 11:25:14 -0400
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Subject: Re: Small setup.exe suggestion
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In-Reply-To: <200006020821.KAA00949@cerbere.u-strasbg.fr>; from muller@cerbere.u-strasbg.fr on Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 09:59:43AM +0200

My standard reply to this is:

Good ideas are cheap, contributions are gold.

If you have a good idea try making the change yourself and submitting
a patch.  That is the best way to make your good idea a reality.

cgf

On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 09:59:43AM +0200, Pierre Muller wrote:
>  Would it be possible to add some progress info on downloading ?
>
> Some files are very big and if connection is bad it ca take quite long to
>download it !
>A simple XX% at the end of
>downloading xxx;tar.gz 
>would be enough to let people know that the setup program is really working
>and
>that the connection is not dead.
>
>  A second suggestion, but that might be much more work would be an
>option that would create a listing of all available packages 
>with the status of the currently locally available.
>
>  This would for instance inform you that there is a newer bash version
>if you type "setup -l" (or any other option if this onee is already used.
>  
>  Other than that I find this program really good,
>its so simple to upgrade a package.
>
> Thanks for CygWin.
>
>
>Pierre Muller
>Institut Charles Sadron
>6,rue Boussingault
>F 67083 STRASBOURG CEDEX (France)
>mailto:muller AT ics DOT u-strasbg DOT fr
>Phone : (33)-3-88-41-40-07  Fax : (33)-3-88-41-40-99

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