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Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 13:00:28 -0400
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: "Harig, Mark A." <maharig AT idirect DOT net>
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Subject: Re: setup.exe 2.218.2.8/9 broken
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Harig, Mark A. wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu]
>>Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 11:52 PM
>>To: John Haggerty
>>Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>>Subject: Re: setup.exe 2.218.2.8/9 broken
>>
> 
> (text deleted)
> 
>>(3) bug #2: minor issues with parsing "buried" setup.ini 
>>files -- that 
>>belong to things NOT cygwin-setup.exe-related.  This happens 
>>only when 
>>someone says "My local setup directory is HERE" when HERE has 
>>subdirectories that don't belong to cygwin-setup.  (That's 
>>bad, don't do 
>>that: setup's 'local directory' is his own personal playground and he 
>>doesn't play well with others)
> 
> 
> I hope that this isn't going to be the solution to the problem of
> setup.exe finding non-setup.exe setup.ini files.  Although I don't think
> that I will make this mistake again, I expect that it will happen to
> future users who are not reading this list today.

Perhaps some explanatory text on the panel where setup asks for "local 
directory" would be nice.  Something like "This is the cygwin setup 
program's private cache.  Do not choose a directory with pre-existing 
contents, unless those contents are the result of an earlier run of this 
setup program".  Care to provide a patch?

But no, it's not "the solution".  Chris has already added some code that 
assists setup in parsing only "proper" setup.ini files and skipping 
non-setup.exe-related ones.

> Also, I'd like to suggest that when setup.exe finds syntax errors in a
> setup.ini file, it log those messages in a file so that the messages can
> be used in reporting problems with setup.exe.  I've been unable to
> cut&paste the text from the windows that list the parsing errors.

Probably a good idea -- but you can also use the "scaper" utility from 
PCMag (ZDnet) to grab text from popup dialogs.

--Chuck


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