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Henry S. Thompson wrote:
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> I was reminded by the recent spate of new packages -- how hard would
> it be for Setup to support a 'New' category, which new packages go
> into automatically, and expire out after. . .three months?  I only
> update once every month or so, and often think "Now, what was that
> cool new package I saw announced a few weeks ago?" and can't remember,
> or be bothered to trawl the archives. . .


Not to dismiss your idea but "trawling" the archives for this kind of
information isn't hard, since you only need to look at the cygwin-annnounce
list.  This is a low volume list which only contains package announcements.
It is a step external to 'setup.exe' though.


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