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Re: Multiple pending setup patches
On Oct 14 10:44, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 09:19:01AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> On Oct 14 03:30, Brian Dessent wrote:
> >> > Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> > > > I suppose that this would have to be defeatable for people who want to
> >> > > > use setup.exe for in-house mirrors but I'm not too worried about that.
> >> > >
> >> > > Ouch, I am. It should be possible to switch this off, or setup should
> >> > > differ between a mirror from the list, which just isn't available right
> >> > > now, and a mirror which has been added manually.
> >> >
> >> > What I had in mind was something like this:
> >> >
> >> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> >> > Warning: The mirror you have selected is not on the list
> >> > of official Cygwin mirrors. It may be out of date
> >> > or missing some packages. If you experience
> >> > installation problems consider trying an official
> >> > mirror.
> >> >
> >> > [X] Don't show this again
> >> >
> >> > [ OK ]
> >> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >> That's it.
> >
> >FWIW, I was thinking more of a command-line option to turn it off, rather
> >than a user-changeable setting...
>
> Maybe both would be needed. I like the "Don't show this again" part of the
> option.
>
> IMO, this "out of date mirror" problem is probably percolating to the top of
> the apparent bugs that people see in setup.exe.
It just occured to me that my reply was a bit too relaxed.
To reiterate, I think that it makes sense to differ between a
*manually added* mirror and a chosen mirror from the official mirror
list, which is just dead or comatose or something.
Manually added mirrors are usually either company mirrors or in some
other way under control of the user so there should be no need to
hint the user that a manually added mirror is not in the list of
official mirrors.
This is pretty different from the situation which the above dialog would
be about to solve or soothe. Just an extra single bit of information
would help a lot.
Except for the manually added mirror situation, I'm all for the dialog
and/or a CLI switch.
Corinna
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