Welcoming Brian Dessent as setup maintainer
Max Bowsher
maxb@ukf.net
Thu May 5 23:34:00 GMT 2005
Brian Dessent wrote:
> Max, I'm sorry for dumping a huge change like that without
> posting a patch first, but honestly a lot of it was just tedium of
> making resizing sane and tweaking the dialogs.
Don't be sorry at all. :-)
trunk is supposed to be "under active development" - I think that it is
perfectly OK to commit first and then discuss for any non-controversial
changes.
> A new test version is here:
> http://dessent.net/cygwin/setup-2.490.exe
>
> Please kick its tires for me, especially if you have win9x, and so on.
> It has the dependency checking patch, which I have not yet committed
> because it's not quite done.
To avoid confusion, it might be better to name the executable something that
hints at it not being compiled from purely committed code.
Perhaps setup-2.490M.exe (M for modified), or setup-2.490+.exe.
Max.
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