Re: Cygwin setup window size, why no maximize button enabled ?

[Chris Jefferson <caj at cs dot york dot ac dot uk>]

utomo wrote:

> And also better if the setup can download simultaneusly, or preparing
> for the next file. 
> Now if we look at the download process, the connecting time (for each
> file) is consuming time. If the download process can reduce this, I
> believe the download will be much faster.  
>
>  

A much more useful addition I believe would be for cygwin to be able to 
download patches to previously downloaded packages (in the basic case 
when you've kept the .tar.bz2 files it downloaded, which it does by 
default). I have actually been doing this for a few friends for a while 
now via a simple bash script which makes patch files and puts them on an 
FTP from which friends  on 56k can download them and apply them using 
another script. If you pop these into the downloaded packages directory 
cygwin setup will (as expected) recognise the packages are already 
downloaded and install them without re-downloading them.

I think that his would be a useful feature to have more offically (my 
script is hacky and breaks every so often, and I'm not telling everyone 
my FTP's address), but after a few days digging through setup.exe I got 
hopelessly lost (but that could say more about my programming than 
setup.exe)

If anyone has the programming experience I'd be happy to help 
(particuarily I have a reimplementation of bsdiff hanging around 
somewhere, which seems to be the best binary diffing program around, but 
is under some strange anti-GPL licence. At some point I'll get around to 
cleaning it up).

Actually, I'm sorry for a) blabbling and b) asking legal questions, but 
this is related to a package I'd like to submit to cygwin. Imagine the 
following situation:

1) I download source to bsdiff, read code and documentation
2) I describe the basic algorithm to a friend and point him to papers 
online which describe how to do various mathematical transformations.
3) Friend write bsdiff clone which is not file compatable but does the 
same kind of thing.

now.

a) Can my friend release this under the GPL? (and therefore try to get 
it included in cygwin
b) As I read the original program, am I now irreparably "tainted" and 
cannot work on fixing / extending the code?

Chris

> Regards, 
>
> Utomo
>
>  
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com 
> > [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of utomo
> > Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 10:41 AM
> > To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> > Subject: RE: Cygwin setup window size, why no maximize button 
> > enabled ?
> >
> >
> > Hi, 
> >
> > I just try the snapshot and it is nice. 
> > I have some comments:
> > 1. Maybe we need to make initial size little bit bigger, I 
> > believe mostly people need to resize it, so if we make it 
> > little bit bigger, user will find it easier/less resize it. 
> > 2. I did not find way to change the view from details view to 
> > back to folders view. 
> > With this options it will make cygwin more confortable
> > Just my2c.
> >
> > Thanks. 
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Utomo
> >
> >
> >    
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
> > > [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Schulman
> > > Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 10:45 PM
> > > To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> > > Subject: Re: Cygwin setup window size, why no maximize button 
> > > enabled ?
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > >
> > > > http://cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/
> > > >        
> > > Hallelujah, a resizable setup program.  What a relief.
> > >
> > > Now if only it would recognize my mouse wheel...
> > >
> > >
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