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Subject: Re: Setup  - it would be nice if...
From: Robert Collins <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: Gareth Pearce <tilps AT hotmail DOT com>
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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Date: 02 Nov 2001 21:11:36 +1100
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On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 20:56, Gareth Pearce wrote:
> This is not comments of testing the new setup or suggesting that it should
> be in the next release...
> All of the setup discussion reminded me of a feature that I thought would be
> nice.  If its been mentioned before, blaim my incompetence with using search
> engines... Setup is able to detect if a new version exists and prompts you
> about it.  I was thinking that it should be able to offer to download it
> and, this would probably be more tricky and less important, restart itself.
> 
> If my workload manges to stabalise I might look into doing this sort of
> thing myself, but at the moment I will just suggest...
> 

I've released a patch for setup.exe that does this, look in the recent
archives of cygwin-patches.

It's highly experimental, but it seems to work in my testing.

It has 3 TODO's to get it into the main setup.exe.

1) Code tidy up, as opposed to quick'n'dirty hack.
2) Instead of downloading setup.exe and copyandspawn.exe it should
download a setup package, and a copyandspawn package, extract
copyandspawn.exe to the setup dir, and extract setup.exe to the tmp dir.
3) The dialog that warns about replacing setup.exe should be given a
checkbox, that defaults to ticked, with the caption "Auto-upgrade
setup.exe", and if that checkbox is not ticked, setup.exe should behave
the way it does now.

Cheers,
Rob


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