Setup.exe -> Creating a better user interface

Robert Collins rbcollins@cygwin.com
Sat Apr 12 02:40:00 GMT 2003


On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 03:30, BB wrote:
> If you are installing to an older slower Win9x machine from a CD, there is a
> considerable pause when the list of packages is being generated.  On a CD I
> gave someone, I warned them saying "Generating this list may take some time
> on a slow machine"

Try the latest snapshot
http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-2.350.exe

I've fixed (somewhat) the traversal done when checking package
requirements. It's only slightly better from a logic point of view, but
should be much better from a user point of view.

Rob
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