Am 17.03.2021 um 21:02 schrieb Jon Turney:
A new setup release candidate is available at:
https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.906.x86_64.exe (64 bit version)
https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.906.x86.exe (32 bit version)
Please test, and report any problems here.
I feel the need to take this occasion to woe about the terrible UI of
setup. Two years or more ago there was a major revision, sarcastically
accompanied by the comment the UI would have been pushed forward to the
90s. Before that, you could simply select a package by clicking one (!)
checkbox. Since then, you have to open a popup, scroll to the latest
version and click that. This multiplies the effort to do selections
significantly and it's quite a nuisance.
This is not the place for setup feature requests.
It's not a feature as it was much better before; it's a regression. Can
we please get back a fast-usable interface?
Thomas
Changes compared to 2.905:
- If a selected site URL saved from the last run starts with
"http://";, and an identical URL, except starting with "https://";, is
in the current mirror list, migrate it from "http://"; to "https://";.
- Propagate the value of the CYGWIN environment variable into
post-install and pre-remove scripts (Thanks to Michael Wild for this
patch).
Partially addresses:
https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2020-August/245994.html
- Warn about unknown package names used with '--packages' or
'--remove-packages' options.
- Move (potentially localizable) installation progress and package
action strings to string table resource.
- Fix new warnings and build issues with gcc 10.
