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From: Keith Christian <keith1christian AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 07:15:50 -0600
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Subject: Re: setup.exe enhancement request, proceed on error after logging error to setup.log
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Brian,

All-volunteer.  I understand that well, and have been using Cygwin for
a long long time.

The volunteers love what they do, and I try to be as respectful as
possible when suggesting changes, changes mean more work for them.

I'm satisfied with this thread.

Thanks Achim, Jon, and to any other setup maintainers, and to all
Cygwin maintainers for the selfless work you do.

Keith



On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 7:01 AM Brian Inglis
<Brian DOT Inglis AT systematicsw DOT ab DOT ca> wrote:
>
> On 2019-06-11 14:52, Keith Christian wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 12:39 PM Brian Inglis wrote:
> >> On 2019-06-11 11:19, Achim Gratz wrote:
> >>> Keith Christian writes:
> >>>> Would the maintainers (Achim?  Jon?) be willing to consider an option
> >>>> box log errors to the setup.log file and "Skip non-fatal errors and
> >>>> continue?"
> >>>
> >>> You'd first have to teach setup to distinguish between fatal and
> >>> non-fatal errors.  A missing package archive is always fatal as far as
> >>> setup is concerned (how did that happen anyway?).
> >>
> >> A mirror update failure, an unsafe mirror update process, or the latter leading
> >> to the former.
>
> > Thanks for the feedback.
> >
> > Even if a file were missing that might cause issues in a few
> > dependency chains, why not allow the install to continue?
> >
> > Suppose a file was missing halfway through?  Why stop the whole
> > install for the sake of a few missing files?  Let the install continue
> > for those packages that aren't missing files, write a message to the
> > log, and put up a dialog after both the successful installs and the
> > rebasing are done.  User clicks OK and uses Cygwin in its current
> > state, or she/he restarts the install from a different mirror.  Pick
> > up the missing files for the few packages and all done.
> >
> > This would ultimately save time and effort.
> >
> > Whatever the case, if a file is missing, setup will have to be run
> > again to fix the problems, by pointing to another mirror, etc.
> >
> > Thanks for listening.
>
> What it ultimately comes down to is this is a group of volunteers.
> None of them want to have to try to explain or fix a broken setup on a user's
> system caused by a broken mirror: they don't have the time.
> So if there is any chance of setup breaking an install, setup will quit before
> it does any damage.
>
> Whether setup lets you know in a dialogue box or in a log file, that it upgraded
> or failed to upgrade your installation, may depend on your install options.
>
> Personally, I would be very happy if setup popped up the setup log at the end of
> the run, if there were any issues. I have done this kind of results display in
> Windows and Unix command line and GUI environments for user and developer tools:
> launch a log viewer if there was a problem, launch an app if results are good.
>
> --
> Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
>
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