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Re: setup.exe and release messages
Christopher Faylor wrote:
I've been thinking about adding some way of reviewing documentation from
setup.exe, just like every other installer in the world. But, that's not
quite what you're talking about. I think you want to display something
before the user makes a decision.
What about the four people in the world that use the command-line
options to setup.exe ?
Do we need to add a new option to put those messages into a
release notes file somewhere?
While it's not as manly as entering code using front panel switches, I
often do a download to local filesystem, then install from local
filesystem. I'm not sure why anymore.
We could add this to the setup.ini file and make it per-package so that
caveats or announcements show up on the next screen after the packages
are selected.
And when a major change happens, the user has to click though n>9
dialog boxes saying
"Pay Attention - if you blindly click through this dialog box an
angry hippo will eat your mount points and you'll have to come
crawling to the mailing list to find out why"
The other thing I've always thought about is adding a way to display
the cygwin-announce messages in setup.exe so that people could know
the reason for a change.
Maybe upgrading packages should be more complicated so that
users would read the manual. Or maybe not upgrade as often.
Ralph