setup.exe, dependencies, and 'keep' mode

[Charles Wilson]

On 11/9/2011 5:43 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
> There's a somewhat annoying behavior in setup.exe when installing
> packages in 'keep' mode: all dependencies selected by things which would
> have been installed in 'Curr' mode still try to download. Often I can

It's a setup.hint "bug".  While setup.exe does support per-version 
requires: statements, most setup.hints don't use that, and instead 
specify "global" requirements.

So, bob uploads the new package "foo" which now requires libbar, and he 
simply modifies the (global) requirements to add libbar.  When you try 
to "keep" the old foo, setup.exe still notices that the requirements now 
include libbar, and you don't have it installed, so...

--
Chuck


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