Welcoming Brian Dessent as setup maintainer
Brian Dessent
brian@dessent.net
Wed May 4 00:06:00 GMT 2005
Warren Young wrote:
> > Still, the context sensitive help would go a long way, and there is a
> > manual in html that they can refer to online.
>
> Context-sensitive help is just resources, so that wouldn't require a
> traditional Windows installer. I recall that it's tricky to do outside
> a dialog, though.
Yeah, agree. That's why I was going to see about implementing it
because the .exe could remain self-contained.
> Perhaps setup.exe could have a button to launch the default browser to
> open the online Cygwin docs from setup.exe. I believe the Shell API has
> a way to do this, where you just "open" a URL. ShellExecute(), perhaps?
Yep. Not a bad idea either.
That reminds me... another idea that cgf mentioned earlier was having
setup.exe offer to show the README files of packages it just installed.
For me, I think I would want it to launch in the default browser of
choice, but you could also just spawn a console with 'less'.
Brian
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