Re: Eliminating -mno-cygwin from gcc.

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 10:06:41AM -0600, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>>The discussion has been to augment 'setup.exe' in a way as to provide users
>>with feedback about "important" package changes in general.  It has come up
>>in the context of the gcc change but would have to apply generally.
>>"Important" would be defined by the maintainer by some mechanism.
>>Presumably, every release of package 'foo' does not trigger the "important"
>>flag. ;-)
>
>Hmm, there might be a catch-22 here. How do we force people to update 
>their setup.exe?

Doesn't setup.exe warns if the setup.ini being used has a different
version number?

In any event, we are, of course, going to send out details in
cygwin-announce.

>(What about a change that does not affect setup.exe itself? Maybe a 
>package that most things depend on that allows a post-install script to 
>display a dialog? Or was that the plan already?)

I suppose that you could add a post-install script but it is too late at
that point.  This would force a normal cygwin user into a reinstall frenzy
from which they might not ever recover.  It might be better than nothing,
though.

cgf

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