[PATCH] Remove Prev button from setup.exe's chooser page

Andy Koppe andy.koppe@gmail.com
Sat Aug 13 20:38:00 GMT 2011


On 13 August 2011 08:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Andy,
>
> On Jul 17 20:26, Andy Koppe wrote:
>> Attached is a patch for removing the Prev radio button from
>> setup.exe's chooser page. As previously discussed at [1], that button
>> doesn't really serve any useful purpose. It might mislead people into
>> thinking that it delivers a somewhat outdated but proven Cygwin, when
>> in fact it delivers a rather random mix of packages of widely varying
>> age that is unlikely to actually work together.
>>
>> Also attached is a documentation change to go with this.
>>
>> Andy
>>
>>
>> [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-08/msg00890.html
>>
>>
>> cygwin-apps/setup/ChangeLog:
>>       * res.rc: Remove Prev button from chooser page.
>>       * resource.h: Reflect removal of Prev button.
>>       * package_meta.h (trustp): Ditto.
>>       * choose.cc: Ditto.
>>
>> winsup/doc/ChangeLog:
>>       * setup-net.sgml (setup-packages): Reflect removal of Prev button.
>>       Also document Keep button and improve description of Exp button.
>
> please apply.

I checked that in at the time, but forgot to confirm here, sorry.

(Also, I notice I put 2010 instead of 2011 in the ChangeLog entry ...)

Andy



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