Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: RE: Next version of setup.exe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 21:33:46 +1100 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Next version of setup.exe Thread-Index: AcG+t11OsTuxKaGCQFCoZ4+lC/dc9QJZxZyg From: "Robert Collins" To: "Mark Himsley" , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g2AAY6X18444 Hi Mark, sorry for the long delay... fiscally supported work intervened. > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Himsley [mailto:mark AT mdsh DOT com] > Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 10:16 PM > To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Subject: Re: Next version of setup.exe > > > On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 11:01:12 +1100 you wrote: > > >It is accessible via > >http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-20020225.exe. > > Maybe the 'Locate package Directory' text box could fill the > width of the dialog slightly more Patches (from anyone) accepted. > Maybe its my computer but selecting the 'Cygwin Setup' item > in the task bar or clicking anywhere on the dialog except for > the title bar does not top the dialog (it does get focus though). It's everyones. Long term the chooser will be just-another-property page (or something). Anyway, known bug (I'm assuming that you have the choose open when this occurs). Can you please confirm my assumption? > Using setup in two passes, one to doanload and one to > install. I selected to uninstall bison on the first pass, it > was installed and there was an update to happen. On the > second pass I was not able to uninstall as uninstall is not > one of the options but installing the latest version (which > was not downloaded) was in the list of options. When it got > to do the install there was an error indicating that the file > to install did not exist (which is correct). This leads me to > two observations: (1) what is the point of the uninstall > option in the download phase and (2) why did the install > phase offer to install a file that did not exist and did not > offer to uninstall that file. 'Download only' mode is a hack leveraging existing functionality, not a truly separate mode. So it prevents installs... but apparently uninstalls slipped through the gaps. Added as a todo-item to remove the uninstalling, and the ability to choose that (or reinstalls). As for the install phase, I'm not sure if this email was sent before or after I fixed a critical bug in the local-install mode, you may find it's fixed 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/