[PATCH setup] Add --allow-test-versions

Jon Turney jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Mon Apr 26 11:49:27 GMT 2021


On 23/04/2021 14:11, David Allsopp via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> Jon Turney wrote:
>> On 20/04/2021 15:37, David Allsopp via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>> Attached adds -t/--allow-test-packages to Setup which controls the
>>> initial state of the "Test" checkbox.
>>>
>>> Motivation is to allow one CI cron job to be installing test versions
>>> of packages, then we can help identify things like [1] before they're
>> released.
>>
>> Nice.  Thanks.
>>
>>> +static BoolOption AllowTestOption (false, 't', "allow-test-packages",
>>> +"Permit installation of package versions marked test");
>>
>> The only quibble I have is the help text here.  The user has always been
>> permitted to choose test packages, this checkbox allows setup to decide to
>> use them itself.
>>
>> So maybe something like "Consider package versions marked test".
> 
> No problem - see attached.
> 

Thanks for producing an updated patch!


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