Setup.exe snapshot
Robert Collins
robert.collins@itdomain.com.au
Sun Dec 23 10:01:00 GMT 2001
I've placed a new snapshot of setup.exe at
http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots.
Any commentary is welcome, with the caveat that duplicates aren't
interesting - no not even to guage the popularity or impact of a
problem. Triage occurs after inital analysis.
Firstly, the known bugs:
* The chooser can be a little funny updating.
* There is still no trivial way to 'install everything'.
Now for the list of recently accomplished things.
* Downloading will continue past errors, presenting the errors after all
downloads have been attempted - this aids unattended downloading.
* Multiple mirrors can be used in parallel. (use shift-click or
control-click).
* Dependencies will only trigger installation of a package - they won't
force an upgrade of an installed package. (with the caveat that in the
future versioned dependencies may force upgrades).
* Skip shows up for non installed packages, keep for installed packages
(consistently).
* The order of package versions when clicking the spin control is more
consistent (selected radio button (prev/curr/test)->source only (only if
the package is installed) ->oldest version...(skip version of radio
button)...->
newest version->uninstall->keep/skip->start again. The behaviour of the
src tickbox is more predicatable as well.
* Gary R Van Sickle has contributed an overhaul of the windowing code
that should fix the front/bottom annoyance with setup.
Hopefully this setup will become the released version in the near
future - so lets hear what you think!
Rob
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