Re: Setup.exe release-candidate
On Win98, setup concludes rather badly. In previous incarnations, setup would launch a DOS window. Quite often that would freeze my machine, reasons unclear. However, it was possible to murder "winoldap" using the three-finger-salute and that would return me to normal functioning - usually displaying the "Installation Complete" message. Now, however, a window is launched (doesn't look like DOS, but maybe) that immediately freezes the machine. Murdering "winoldap" just leaves it frozen. I also murdered a "cs2?" task that was [not responding] - still frozen but now Ctl-Alt-Del is not sensed. I wound up cycling the power. -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate "By God's Grace I am a Christian man, by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim; R. M. French, tr. Life is too short to tolerate crappy software. .
RE: Setup.exe release-candidate
> -Original Message- > From: Michael A Chase [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 1:17 AM > I'm copying this to cygwin-apps instead of cygwin. > > I was planning to do this once the new setup.exe was released > and the source merged, but have absolutely no objection to > Max doing it. > > My feeling is that the site specific directories are a > distraction. When downloading, the newest setup.ini found > should be the only one saved. Even if site specific > setup.ini's are desirable, the archive files should still > only be saved in the base tree. Site specific setup.ini's are a -requirement-. Try running the new setup, and then on the mirror page, click add, and put "http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/testing"; in there. (You should end up with that auto selected in addition to your normal mirror sites.). You'll get Chucks test packages _merged_ into your pacakge view. Neat huh? Want automake 1.6? Just click on automake-devel a coupla times. MD5 validation of tarballs would be nice prior to moving them into a common tree. I've written on this a couple of times. My pov remains: I don't particularly like the separate persistent trees, and will happily review alternatives. Other than moving the downloaded files across once they are validated I don't have a better plan as yet. (Ideas yes, plans no). Rob
Re: Setup.exe release-candidate
From: "Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Max Bowsher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 04:35 Subject: RE: Setup.exe release-candidate > -Original Message- > From: Max Bowsher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 11:32 PM > > At 11:00 AM 3/15/2002, Max Bowsher wrote: > > >Hi - Could someone tell me what the reason behind making setup put > packages > > >in directories named for the mirror they came from? I'm sure there > > >was a good reason, I just can't figure it out. > > > > It's to support selecting packages from multiple mirrors. See the > > email archives for more in depth discussions on this topic. > > I searched, but did not find. The point of my original > question was this: At the moment, every so often, I merge the > mirror directories into my old-style main directory by hand. > If I produced a patch to add a 'tidy download directories' > option to setup, that did this, would people say "that's > helpful" or "that's stupid". ]They would say "Something like that was planned eventually anyway - ]thank you very much for helping". I'm copying this to cygwin-apps instead of cygwin. I was planning to do this once the new setup.exe was released and the source merged, but have absolutely no objection to Max doing it. My feeling is that the site specific directories are a distraction. When downloading, the newest setup.ini found should be the only one saved. Even if site specific setup.ini's are desirable, the archive files should still only be saved in the base tree. -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask Smarter: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Give a hobbit a fish and he eats fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age.
