Re: setup.exe suggestion + patch

[Lewis Hyatt <lhyatt at princeton dot edu>]

Lewis Hyatt wrote:

> The simplest way I could think of to correct this would be to change the 
> behavior so that when you click on a Category or a Package, instead of 
> simply cycling through, you get a little popup menu that asks you what 
> you want to do instead. This way, you can go directly to Uninstall 
> without dealing with the intervening options. This also lets you see all 
> available versions at once, and avoids calculating dependencies 
> unnecessarily.
>
> I wrote a simple patch that implements this suggestion. Attached are the 
> outputs of cvs diff (in diff.txt) and cvs diff -n (in diff_n.txt). (I'm 
> sorry, I don't know much about CVS, is this the preferred way to submit 
> a patch?). Here is a summary of the changes:

Did anyone happen to take a look at this message I sent last week? I 
thought maybe it would be interesting to someone besides me, but maybe 
I'm wrong. If you don't like the extra clicks involved in my solution, I 
would be willing to explore others as well. I do think the problem I 
mentioned in my original message is worth fixing...

-Lewis


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