Setup.exe "Keep mode" bug

[Max Bowsher]

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Max Bowsher wrote:
>
>> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> The setup version currently on the Cygwin web site exhibits the 
>>> following
>>> behavior: in "Keep" mode, it was impossible to select the new version of
>>> the Cygwin package for the upgrade.
>>
>> I'm somehow not surprised. Those horribly twiddly-cycle controls in
>> setup are distressingly buggy. I've been speculating on how to change
>> them into drop-down lists.
>>
>> Max.
>
> Frankly, I don't mind the twiddly-cycle controls, and this has little to
> do with intuitiveness.  The way I see it, there are two parts of setup
> involved in this: the logic that lists the available versions (independent
> of the GUI, mostly), and the actual control that cycles through those
> versions.  Yes, with drop-down boxes one will see the whole list of
> available choices at once, but if the logic is unchanged, the drop-down
> list will also contain the wrong set of items.

Indeed - I was mixing issues. The problem is that at the moment, setup does 
*not* generate a list of options - it implies the next option based on the 
current option - somewhat imperfectly, as you have discovered. Actually 
having a full list available would make the "what is next" logic rather 
simpler - and so less susceptible to bugs.

Max.