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Re: Welcoming Brian Dessent as setup maintainer
On Thu, 5 May 2005, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> > 1) Do they work the same on Win9x? How about Win2k/NT?
>
> I think so. But that's why I'm asking people to test it. :)
To answer my own question -- tested it earlier today on Win9x, and it
seemed to work just fine. There were some intermittent errors with a
missing Cygwin1.dll in preremove scripts, and some postinstall scripts
failed (it was a large upgrade, I can post the full log if anyone's
interested), but otherwise it went rather smoothly.
> Also, I fixed the resizing of the remaining pages (splash, root, and
> localdir.) It should all work relatively well now for all pages.
>
> > 3) It would be nice if the "Resolve Dependencies" were a bit more
> > fine-grained (i.e., if each unmet dependency were to be a list item with a
> > checkbox, so that the user could select individual dependencies to
> > install). This is probably for the future, as the same mechanism we'd use
>
> Yeah, but really either you know what you're doing and can ignore the
> suggestions, or you should let it choose everything.
Well, even if you do know what you're doing, some amount of sanity
checking would be useful... :-D
> I feel pretty good about the resizing and URL stuff, so I've committed
> those.
Oh, and just for the record: URLs work on Win9x as well.
> Max, I'm sorry for dumping a huge change like that without posting a
> patch first, but honestly a lot of it was just tedium of making resizing
> sane and tweaking the dialogs.
>
> A new test version is here:
> http://dessent.net/cygwin/setup-2.490.exe
>
> Please kick its tires for me, especially if you have win9x, and so on.
> It has the dependency checking patch, which I have not yet committed
> because it's not quite done. But close enough for rough testing. My
> main concern is the UI changes - please let me know if anything displays
> oddly for you.
Nothing caught my eye. I'll try some in a week, though...
Igor
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