Re: setup.exe sizes

[Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray dot at>]

Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) schrieb:
> At Wednesday, October 27, 2004 8:34 AM, Sergey Okhapkin wrote:
> > I wonder if most of people have any knowledge about setup command
> > line arguments, I believe in most  cases setup is being started
> > directly from cygwin web page.
> >
> > It's the most important rule of any GUI program design - all settings
> > must be available in GUI.

but setup.exe --help should print something to the console, not to 
setup.log :) (we discussed that before)
if it would print something people would be aware of it. the log is not 
so visible.

> I would say that they are available in the GUI, but not with an option to be
> remembered.  I have
>   c:\cygwin\arc\setup.exe -R c:\cygwin -s ftp://mirrors.rcn.net -n -q
> in my startup folder to keep me up-to-date without any manual intervention.
> If Mr. Wolff uses the command-line options form a short-cut, he will
> eliminate the annoyance in question.

But "Mr. Wolff" complaint is still valid. it should remember the last 
selected options, if no cmdline override is given.
we don't use the registry so far, to store such prefs.
for the last-selected site we use files.
maybe we can use files also for the other prefs.
remembering the initial packageview view_mode might also be useful.
now it always starts with view_mode = views::Category.

> > > At Monday, October 25, 2004 10:14 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> > >
> > > > * setup does not remember the user preferences about the final two
> > > >  questions; it especially annoys me that I have to click off
> > > >  the option to create a desktop icon every time
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Reini Urban
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