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Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 14:33:38 +0000 (GMT)
From: John Morrison <john DOT r DOT morrison AT ntlworld DOT com>
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To: Robert Collins <rbcollins AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: New setup.exe beta.
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On 26 Nov 2002, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 00:26, John Morrison wrote:
> > Congratulations to all :)
> >
> > I've tried it and a couple of collegues (I
> > ran the net installation they ran local).  Nobody
> > found anything wrong.  There was, however, one
> > suggestion; they liked the progress for MD5 but
> > they wanted an overall progress in addition to
> > one for each package (and they wanted the packages
> > in alphabetical order, but that was just a comment).
>
> During the MD5 check? This could be done, but at a price - rather than
> walking the directory once, we'd have to walk it twice, once to find the
> files to MD5, then to do that.

Can't you get the number of files from setup.ini?

> How keen where they on this? (Both the
> full progress bar, and the alphabetical ordering).

I think, it was a case that they didn't know how long it was
going to take.  If they had a progress bar they'd know exactly,
if the files were in alphabetical order they'd at least have
an idea that it was comming to an end ;)

Would it be reasonable to switch MD5 off?  It ends up
being checked 3 or 4 times around here as different people
install cygwin...

> Otherwise, I'm glad to hear it is ok :}.

:)

I've still not checked it with a new installation though :(
for some reason, nobody wanted to delete theirs!

J.


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