Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-apps-owner AT cygwin DOT com List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 20:02:17 EST To: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com, Christopher Faylor Subject: Re: prev/curr/test Message-Id: From: Brian Keener Reply-To: bkeener AT thesoftwaresource DOT com In-Reply-To: <20020323061924.GA3593@redhat.com> References: <20020323061924 DOT GA3593 AT redhat DOT com> Christopher Faylor wrote: > evil and should be abolished. The only way to get old versions > should be at a macro level. You click a button and get all of > the old stuff, you click another button and get all of the current > stuff, you click another button to get all of the test stuff. > > I think that Robert is right that if you click on test you should > only get packages that have test versions. Ditto for prev. Ditto > for curr. Sorry guys, I still like the idea of keeping Prev,Curr and Test but as a means of limiting the maximum version I want to see - IE if I didn't select Test I won't see any test but I will see prev and Current. Then I suggest we do away with the Source Box and nix the idea of a bin box and simply use the clickable version and within the version we have such entities as the following (assume the version installed is 1.4.3 and there is a current of 1.4.4 and I have curr selected on the radio buttons): keep/skip (obviously skip if nothing were installed), uninstall (would only exist if package installed), 1.4.4 bin&src, 1.4.4 bin, 1.4.4 src, reinstall bin&src (would reinstall both for 1.4.3), reinstall bin (reinstall bin for 1.4.3), reinstall src (reinstall src for 1.4.3), retrieve bin&src (retrieves installed bin and src), retrieve bin (retrieves installed bin), retrieve src (retrieves installed src), retrieve 1.4.4 bin&src ... The retrieve options would be available as opposed to the reinstall or install options if we were doing a download only as opposed to an install. As an added goody as part of the text for each option you add if it is the prev, curr, test, or just on that is available. I originally posted this idea in a discussion with Rob on March 5 - but is sort of died with the thread as the message. So I'll try again. Just an alternate thought. bk