RE: Wishlist additions for setup.exe

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Dave Korn wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-owner  On Behalf Of Robert Collins
> > Sent: 20 April 2004 15:53
>
>   See, now all the secrets are coming out!
>
> > That is why the choose mirror dialog allows you to choose multiple
> > mirrors. Setup will then use cached copies from any of the chosen
> > mirrors.
>
>   And this is meant to be obvious from the page title "Choose *A* Download
> Site" or the instruction "Choose *a* site from this list, or add your own
> sites to the list"?  I rather think not.
>
>   To be fair, the title bar says "Choose Download Site(s)", but that really
> doesn't override the clear and explicit instruction immediately above the
> chooser to choose only one.

PTC.  I'm sure a simple patch like this will be accepted quickly.

> > I wager that you have been changing mirror for some reason. Don't -
> > choose a list of mirrors to satisfy your needs and leave them
> > selected.
>
>   And why not?  There's no instruction that says "Choose A download site -
> or more than one - but for god's sake make sure it's the same one - or more
> than one - that you chose last time".  This requirement is utterly
> undocumented.

Again, PTC.  This would now be to the setup section of the User's Guide, I
guess.

> I thought setup was meant to be clever enough to make a merged list of
> all the stuff you had in all your download directories: are we now being
> told that actually it only looks in the ones which are enabled in the
> chooser, rather than just enumerating which directories exist in the
> install temp dir?

Yep, exactly.  Would you like setup to go scan your *whole* package cache
every time you run it?  I don't think so...

> What do you do if you have downloaded masses of packages from a mirror
> that has gone away since and is no longer listed in the chooser - do you
> just have to abandon them?

Well, you can move them to the new cache directory for the mirror you
currently use.  Basically, setup will download the new setup.ini, let you
select the packages, and then for each of these packages check whether the
binary/source tarball is present in the disk cache (no matter how it got
there).
	Igor
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