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Re: Should setup suggests to downgrade? [WAS: Lillypond for Cygwin]
- From: "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit at cox dot net>
- To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke at gnu dot org>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 10:59:19 -0500
- Subject: Re: Should setup suggests to downgrade? [WAS: Lillypond for Cygwin]
- Organization: CoxNet User
- References: <3CA8B996.9050302@cox.net> <m3vgbbgoy7.fsf@appel.lilypond.org> <m3pu1fo5pl.fsf_-_@appel.lilypond.org>
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
>Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>By the way, are you using the latest setup.exe from Cygwin? Setup.exe
>>should never suggest to downgrade, I think.
>>
>
>Found the answer in the README that comes with setup: it's still a
>TODO item:
>
> TODO
> [..]
> * Don't downgrade if the curr version is <= installed?
>
>Btw, this should apply to test too, I think.
>
I agree. It's annoying at best to install a group of test packages and
then, the next time I run setup, if I don't watch carefully they would
revert to the current.
An obvious problem is having everyone use a revision-level scheme that
tests correctly. I see at least two very different schemes here.
Also, setup would need to parse, e.g. 1.9-3 so that it's less than
1.10-1. I'll have to do a more thorough survey to see if a simple
minded algorithm would catch all the cases.
>
>
>Jan.
>
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