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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 15:44:44 -0400
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Subject: Re: experimental new GUI setup
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In-Reply-To: <200007061736.NAA21944@envy.delorie.com>; from dj@delorie.com on Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 01:36:59PM -0400

On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 01:36:59PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
>
>http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/dj-setup.exe
>ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/cygwin/dj-setup.exe

This looks very nice (but I already knew that).

A couple of minor things:

The list of mirrors seems sort of cramped.  Could it just list
the names of the systems rather than the full URL?

The "username/password" part of the download threw me.  We
didn't need this for the old setup program.  I didn't fill
out anything and it seemed to work.  Is this required or
can it be marked as (optional)?

I used ftp.freesoftware.com as the mirror to download from and it gave
me an error because there was 750 people logged in and the maximum was
hit.  Unfortunately, the error showed up *behind* the "Cygwin
Setup/Downloading/setup.ini/Connecting..." screen.

When I clicked on the OK on the error screen I got an "Unable to get
setup.ini from..." error, as expected.  But, then clicking on the OK
aborted the setup.  Would it be possible to add a "Choose another
mirror" (or maybe a Back -> button) and an "Exit" button to make what is
going to happen clearer?

I wonder if we should always retrieve the setup.ini via http from
sourceware.  That would ensure that the latest version was always
retrieved.

cgf