Re: tetex postinstall suggestion

2005-05-07 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Max Bowsher writes: > In this way, there will be some visible indication in setup.exe that > progress is occurring. I see what you mean, but that's quite a hack. What about having setup display some progress indication based on the amount of console output that is printed? Jan. -- Jan Nieuwen

Ready to begin release cycle?

2005-05-07 Thread Max Bowsher
I believe I have now got the MD5 checking to behave in a sensible way. I'm inclined to make a release branch, to start the process of getting the nicer dialogs and proxy port fix into a release. Then, Brian can start using trunk to develop the new dependency logic. Any thoughts on anything addit

tetex postinstall suggestion

2005-05-07 Thread Max Bowsher
In order to give the user a little progress feedback, I suggest that post-texmf.sh be split into post-texmf-stage1.sh, -stage2.sh, etc. In this way, there will be some visible indication in setup.exe that progress is occurring. Max.

Re: please test new setup

2005-05-07 Thread Brian Dessent
Max Bowsher wrote: > > You're right, it's not really Redhat's copyright. I changed it to say > > "Copyright 2001-2005 Redhat" because the previous value "Copyright > > 2000,2001" seemed a bit out of date. What about, "Copyright 2000-2005 > > Redhat and various contributors"? > > Yes, I think th

Re: Setup - Hiding ZZZRemovedPackages?

2005-05-07 Thread Max Bowsher
Brian Dessent wrote: Harold L Hunt II wrote: Would it be possible to hide the ZZZRemovedPackages category when in Category view, without changing the dependency logic regarding this category? Yes, in fact I've been meaning to bring this up. In terms of the end user, there should be no reason at al

Re: Dependency checking change...

2005-05-07 Thread Max Bowsher
Brian Dessent wrote: Okay, how about this scenario: Remove the checkbox; add a button that says "Select these now (Recommended)". When you press it the packages are selected and the contents of the text box are replaced with the status of those changes (e.g. "selecting foomatic-1.2.3-1..." but the

Re: please test new setup

2005-05-07 Thread Max Bowsher
Brian Dessent wrote: Reini Urban wrote: Brian Dessent schrieb: Again, I'm looking for any kind of feedback about these new features: works/doesn't work, bad wording, UI comments, etc. Are you really sure that Redhat has the copyright from 2002-2005 also? I remember only for the beginning, but from

Re: please test new setup

2005-05-07 Thread Brian Dessent
Reini Urban wrote: > Brian Dessent schrieb: > > Again, I'm looking for any kind of feedback about these new features: > > works/doesn't work, bad wording, UI comments, etc. > > Are you really sure that Redhat has the copyright from 2002-2005 also? > I remember only for the beginning, but from the

Re: please test new setup

2005-05-07 Thread Reini Urban
Brian Dessent schrieb: Again, I'm looking for any kind of feedback about these new features: works/doesn't work, bad wording, UI comments, etc. Are you really sure that Redhat has the copyright from 2002-2005 also? I remember only for the beginning, but from then on it belongs to the authors: Re