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: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 23:56:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: peter garrone cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: feature requests for setup In-Reply-To: <20030924022154.8435.qmail@linuxmail.org> Message-ID: References: <20030924022154 DOT 8435 DOT qmail AT linuxmail DOT org> Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, peter garrone wrote: > Hi, I thought I would note some desirable features in setup > that would save dickheads such as myself much time. > > - Have setup check with the mirror to see if the setup program itself > has been upgraded. For people who dont read announcements. It already does that. > - If installing from the local directory, possibly only do the MD5 > checksum for packages that are actually going to be installed, > because it now checks every package whenever it starts. Or > at least after an install cycle is complete, allow an option to go back, > so the recheck can skipped, or even both these ideas. . Also see below. > - That "packages" directory default. Sometimes setup drops "packages" > from its default, allowing very wierd directory hierarchies indeed, > if downloading from somewhere. From bitter experience, I always make > sure this particular field ends in "packages". I don't get this one at all. What are you trying to say? > - Have some of those little popup messages on the title, i.e. b -> binary, > s->source, after an interval the only b and s I can think of is > bachelors and spinsters. resizeable window perhaps. You can't resize the window, but you *can* widen individual columns so more of the title shows. A resizeable chooser is in development. > Dont get me wrong, my admiration for setup is boundless, mainly because > it is the only thing that can punch through our corporate firewall, besides > internet explorer. Be great to have source for it, or at least a cvs grab > utility based on it. tells you where to get the sources. Happy developing. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/