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Re: Drop textmode from setup?
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 07:02:06AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
>Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>>My first response was "Well, if you're prepared to deal with people
>>saying <<I created a file in Cygwin, and opened it in Notepad, and now
>>it looks like one big line>>, go for it"... Then I realized it's not
>>true for all programs (e.g., "vi" doesn't do that), but let's review
>>some of the possible complaints, so that we're prepared to handle them.
>
>The right way to handle this is with good documentation. We'd need to
>update the users guide and/or FAQ to reflect the fact that textmode is
>gone from setup.exe but can still be used, with examples of how to
>mount a subdirectory as textmode. And a FAQ about "I tried to edit my
>source code in Notepad, blah blah blah".
Maybe we could stress the use of u2d and d2u over mount modes?
**cgf closes his eyes and daydreams of a future day without text mode**
>>Yes, definitely. It's been time for a while. There were some
>>outstanding issues -- IIRC, at least one has been fixed. Brian, what
>>do you say?
>
>Yeah, we should Just Do It. The thing of "well there are still bugs to
>fix" is a cop-out. At least, the current version is not worse than the
>stable release.
When I reported my problem I wasn't sure if it was a regression or not.
I don't think it is, though.
>On a related note: Do we really need to continue to do the release
>branch? If there's a good reason for it then sure, but it seems to me
>like just an unnecessary complication.
IMO, no, I don't see any reason for a release branch. If setup.exe was
being released frequently or under very active development then maybe it
would make sense. I don't think it makes sense for the current
development environment.
cgf