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 X-Originating-IP: [198.142.165.211] From: "Gareth Pearce" To: "Robert Collins" Cc: References: <1004695897 DOT 6940 DOT 64 DOT camel AT lifelesswks> Subject: Re: Setup - it would be nice if... Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 21:23:50 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Nov 2001 10:23:41.0117 (UTC) FILETIME=[7154CED0:01C16388] Signed myself upto patches and in future I will search that list as well *slaps forehead*. Thankyou for directing me to this. Gareth Pearce ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Collins" To: "Gareth Pearce" Cc: Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 9:11 PM Subject: Re: Setup - it would be nice if... > 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 > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/