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Re: Welcoming Brian Dessent as setup maintainer
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: Cygwin Apps List <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 17:09:36 -0700
- Subject: Re: Welcoming Brian Dessent as setup maintainer
- References: <md5:18B2AEDE38D9A5170947883E87E8B8B6> <4277FB92.54AB86BD@dessent.net> <42780C2C.7090308@etr-usa.com>
Warren Young wrote:
> > Still, the context sensitive help would go a long way, and there is a
> > manual in html that they can refer to online.
>
> Context-sensitive help is just resources, so that wouldn't require a
> traditional Windows installer. I recall that it's tricky to do outside
> a dialog, though.
Yeah, agree. That's why I was going to see about implementing it
because the .exe could remain self-contained.
> Perhaps setup.exe could have a button to launch the default browser to
> open the online Cygwin docs from setup.exe. I believe the Shell API has
> a way to do this, where you just "open" a URL. ShellExecute(), perhaps?
Yep. Not a bad idea either.
That reminds me... another idea that cgf mentioned earlier was having
setup.exe offer to show the README files of packages it just installed.
For me, I think I would want it to launch in the default browser of
choice, but you could also just spawn a console with 'less'.
Brian