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Re: Welcoming Brian Dessent as setup maintainer
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 09:10:15AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Wed, 4 May 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
>> On May 3 15:30, Brian Dessent wrote:
>> > The problem is joe user installs "for me" and then tries to install a
>> > service like sshd, cron, etc. And it naturally fails because SYSTEM
>> > doesn't see any mounts. So one or more of (setup.exe, cygrunsrv,
>> > /usr/bin/foo-install-script) probably needs to do more sanity checking
>> > in those cases.
>>
>> This is a case of not enough information in the dialog, IMHO. The
>> choice the user has to make at this point is quite important, right?
>> Usually this begs for a dialog of its own in typical Windows installers,
>> something along the lines of
>
>Agreed. I would also say "If you want to switch, re-run setup and change
>the setting on this page" somewhere.
>Also, since we're making dialogs more verbose, how about adding something
>like the following to the initial welcome page:
>
> This is the Cygwin setup program. It can be used to perform both an
> initial setup and subsequent updates, so make sure you remember where
> you saved it.
I like this idea.
cgf