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 X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 12:48:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Vince Hoffman cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Setup.exe 2.340.2.5 released In-Reply-To: <031e01c2feb6$84a2cd00$8801090a@uk.circle.com> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Ah, yes, it was getting this info from setup.bz2/.ini. That should be regenerated. Thanks for the heads-up, Vince. Igor On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Vince Hoffman wrote: > Didnt setup use to tell you if there was a new version available (i'm sure i > remember that) > version 2.249.2.5 isnt telling me that. > (purely an FYI as thats at least one version out of date) > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robert Collins" > To: > Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 9:21 PM > Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Setup.exe 2.340.2.5 released > > > A new release of setup.exe has occured. > > > > The new version is available from > > http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe as usual. > > > > Thank you very much to all the beta testers, who did a great job of > > providing feedback, allowing this release to proceed! > > > > ==== Release Notes ==== > > > > CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS RELEASE (alphabetical order): > > > > Abraham Backus > > Brian Keener > > Christopher Faylor > > Gary R. Van Sickle > > John Marshall > > Marcel Telka > > Max Bowsher > > Igor Pechtchanski > > Pavel Tsekov > > Robert Collins > > > > USER-VISIBLE CHANGES: > > Fix 'Can't open (null) for reading' errors. > > Setup now checks bz2 (de)compression status rather than spewing TODO's > > into setup.log.full. > > Returning to the chooser from another page will now refresh the view. > > Packages with corrupt md5's in the source that are being upgraded will > > popup a warning, rather than uninstalling and then failing to install > > the new version. > > Setup is now more helpful when reporting what log file to look in if > > errors occured. > > Setup now has two new views - skipped packages (won't be installed) and > > one for > > packages that don't need updating. > > New chooser 'keep' button to change the default activity on packages to > > not upgrade - useful when installing a single new package. > > Show all categories in the chooser, not just the first package. > > Setup will detect and optionally disable McAfee during installation, > > hopefully reducing the bluescreens some users have reported. > > Use per-screen window titles. > > Packages without accessible download sites won't be available for > > installing. > > Updating a user-site in the downloads site list will replace previous > > sites at the same server. > > Parsing of the setup.bz2/.ini files is reported via a progress bar, so > > that setup does not appear to hang after the downloads. > > > > BUGFIXES: > > Run post-install scripts in the order of dependencies, to ensure that > > packages are fully setup before scripts from other, dependent packages > > run. > > Prevent a handle leak when running scripts. > > Prevent an access violation with some throw exceptions. > > Only place the tcp port in http requests when it's not port 80. > > Decode FTP 227 replies more robustly. > > Compile with gcc3. > > > > NEW FEATURES (That aren't user visible): > > Support for parsing debian Packages and Sources tags in setup.ini/bz2. > > Support for versioned dependencies. > > ntsec integration to setup default ACL's on installed files correctly. > > Logs files to be replaced on reboot. > > Update included zlib to 1.1.4. > > Partial unattended mode support. > > The IE5 network option no longer prevents the use of cached data, which > > significantly increases performance. -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. -- Leto II -- 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/