Re: Errors during setup post-install scripts

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 09:33:02AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 09:11, Max Bowsher wrote:
>> David A. Cobb wrote:
>> > Would it be a big deal to have the various setup scripts send their
>> > output to, say, /var/log/setup/SCRIPTNAME.log?
>> 
>> Probably not, but someone has to actually do it.
>
>It's been discussed in the cygwin-apps list, at length.
>
>> Perhaps we should have a setup.exe web-based todo list? Like the current one
>> for the DLL?
>> (I know there is a text file in CVS, but web would allow people to submit
>> items.)
>
>IIRC someone offered to do one at one point, and nothing came of it. I'm
>not for or against a setup.exe web todo list, as long as:
>1) I don't need to maintain/review/care about it.
>2) It gets syncronised with the CVS TODO list.

I have the same two concerns.  My experience with the cygwin DLL to-do list
has been primarily negative so I don't want to be involved in something else
like this.

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