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setup 2.418 - comments
- From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen" <garbage_collector at telia dot com>
- To: "ML CygWIN" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 17:21:30 +0100
- Subject: setup 2.418 - comments
1) Downloading the package list leaves text that doesn't get removed
during the MD5 check phase.
2) Resizing of window - I LOVE IT! :-)
WRT 2:
Resizing during the following download reveals a minor graphics
"bug"; look just *to the right* of the cygwin symbol { 'C-' in ascii
graphics) while resizing the window until the end of the text appears there.
>From this point - slowly widen the window, while keeping an eye just
slightly above where the text appeared.
Some graphics appears at a certain width, at first sight looks like a copy
of the upper window border. I'm not sure it is though.
WRT 1:
It seems to me that the MD5 checking is done whether it is needed or
not. This is time consuming on a slow machine. May I *suggest* the
logic to be changed to something like this:
dl_date = get_date_of(local_package_maindir)
md5_date = get_date_of(MD5_LIST)
if ( !( md5_date > dl_date ) )
do
for d in all_package_subdirs()
do
if (get_date_of(d) > md5_date)
redo_MD5_check(d);
done
save(MD5_LIST)
done
CAVEAT: I haven't CHECKED this to be FULLY TRUE:
I've noted that running setup (2.416 at least!) with
$ cygstart -- /install/setup.exe --no-md5
appears to do a download of the correct packages without problems,
even though _NOT_ doing the MD5 check.
/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59+16.37'N, 17+12.60'E
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