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From: "Stephano Mariani" <sk DOT cygml AT btinternet DOT com>
To: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
Cc: "Mark Jones" <mark_umr AT excite DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: New Install May Have a Bug
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 19:37:56 -0000
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What is the URL of the wishlist?
Also are the setup sources in cygwin sources?
How is the setup built... it is not dependant on cygwin (-mno-cygwin
perhaps)?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
To: "Stephano Mariani" <sk DOT cygml AT btinternet DOT com>
Cc: "Mark Jones" <mark_umr AT excite DOT com>; <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: New Install May Have a Bug


> Stephano Mariani wrote:
>
> > I and my colleagues share the opinion that the setup should include an
> > option to install ALL the packages with or without source
automatically...
>
> > It is a huge pain to manually go through all the packages selecting them
> > repeatedly
>
>
> Yes, we know.  This is already on the wishlist.
>
> > since the most recent version isn't always the first to appear.
>
>
> This is a confirmed misfeature, and fixing it is on the wishlist.
>
>
> > Perhaps a suggestion made earlier on this list by someone whose name i
have
> > forgotten could be implemented: The setup could be controlled on the
> > commandline too perhaps with a filename as an argument. The file could
> > contain all the options required.
>
>
> Yep, AFAIK this is still being developed.
>
> Ya know, if you provided patches to implement your desired
> functionality, it'd probably get into the official setup.exe
> faster...Robert can't do everything by himself...
>
> --Chuck
>
>
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