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 Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: Setup.exe X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 09:10:32 +1000 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Robert Collins" To: "Aaron J. Outhier" , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g44NAhg16867 > -----Original Message----- > From: Aaron J. Outhier [mailto:garlicsalt2 AT yahoo DOT com] > Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 4:50 AM > To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Subject: Setup.exe > > > Hello all: > > I am wondering, is there any way to get the Cygwin Setup > program to download to the same directories as before? As > it is right now, every time I run setup.exe, I am seeing a > new folder added with a name like: > "C:Downloadscygwinhttp%3a%2f%2fuiarchive.uiuc.edu%2fmirrors%2f > ftp%2fsources.redhat.com%2fpub%2fcygwin" That's wrong. It should be 'C:\Downloads\cygwin\http%3a%2f%2fuiarchive.uiuc.edu%2fmirrors%2fftp%2fs ources.redhat.com%2fpub%2fcygwin' > Sometimes I have to abort the installation program when > making updates, and it's really annoying having to start > over, the old way worked just fine. Setup would see that > some of the files are already there, and skip those files. Setup still does that. Just keep using the same list of mirrors. > Plus, it's much easier on the eyes. Huh? That directory is a working directory for the setup program, not a human targeted directory. > I don't care if it > doesn't pick-up in the middle of a half-downloaded file > -that is, if it just starts the last partially completed > file over - it is still better than downloading entire set > all over again! You might try the prerelease snapshot which addresses a bug that causes redownloads. > Also, this is a minor thing, but is it > possible for Setup to estimate before-hand aproximately how > long the download is going to take. I mean, even if it is > as > simple as asking your modem type/download speed, adding the > > size of the files together, then doing other math stuff, to > give an approximate time; that would be something. Then if, > say, it could potentially take longer than the user would > like, he/she could hit the button, de-select a few > files and repeat till the user IS satisfaction... Well, > like I said, it would be something! Patchs for this would be seriously considered. 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/