Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 12:15:16 +0100 Message-ID: <9862-Wed06Jun2001121516+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> X-Mailer: emacs 20.7.1 (via feedmail 9-beta-7 I); VM 6.92 under Emacs 20.7.1 From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Michael Dyck Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: setup.exe complaints In-Reply-To: <3B1D4C8D.1B74D36B@home.com> References: <3B1D4C8D DOT 1B74D36B AT home DOT com> On Tuesday 5 Jun 01, Michael Dyck writes: > Before I start complaining, I'd like to say that Cygwin is great. And I'm > sure setup.exe is a vast improvement over past mechanisms, but I'm still > frustrated with it. > > 1) I ran my local copy of setup.exe and it told me there was a newer version > that I might like to get. Wow! That's really cool. I didn't know it did that, so I've been dutifully downloading a new http://cygwin.com/setup.exe every time I run setup, just in case it's changed. This feature makes things much easier, many thanks to whomever implemented it. As for the remaining comments: > 2) latest/README talks about the "Install from Current Directory" > option, ... > > 3) At first, I wasn't entirely clear on the distinction between > "local package directory" and "install root directory". ... > > 4) I'm puzzled by the "Select packages to download/install" window. ... > > ... > > It seems to me that at least some of these questions are the sort of thing > that latest/README and/or http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_2.html should > address. > I agree that the latest/README file and FAQ need an overhaul in these respects. I'll look into that. > Thanks, > -Michael Dyck Regards, David (Cygwin FAQ maintainer) -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple