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Subject: RE: setup.exe (cinstall) bugfixes + minor new feature
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Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 00:29:25 +1100
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Thread-Topic: setup.exe (cinstall) bugfixes + minor new feature
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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Max Bowsher [mailto:maxb AT ukf DOT net] 
> 
> 
> > I was thinking that
> > If the setting is absent it prompts,
> > if the setting is on it always creates, overwriting the 
> current one if 
> > the setting is off it never creates.
> 
> > Rob
> 
> Hmm - I'm not sure I understand this.
> 
> Current behaviour is that setup checks the boxes by default, 
> if it does not find the shortcuts. The user can manually 
> check the boxes to run the creation code even if they already 
> exist. I find it mildly annoying to have to uncheck both 
> boxes each time I run setup. (My desktop shortcut is called 
> something different, and I don't want a start menu one) 
> Therefore, I would like setup to remember the fact that the 
> user has deliberately unchecked the boxes. I don't understand 
> why anyone would want the shortcuts deleted and recreated 
> every time the run setup?

I can think of reasons :}. The first one being that as a sysadmin I
might want to force every user to get shortcuts - without being
prompted. Now a shared cygwin install does not imply shared profiles -
desktop and start menu locations - so the ability to turn off the prompt
and always create is thus useful.
 
> I will proceed with fixing that bug, and investigate the use 
> of a setup.conf file. Are there any objections to using 
> windows {Get,Set}PrivateProfileInt API calls? Or should I 
> investigate the setup.ini parsing code, and try to use that?

Neither :}. I've a model in mind for persistence for all the currently
diverse setup options. Seriously though, for now, code it with
Get|Set... And I'll get my model documented and into code at some point.

Rob

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