has anyone tried latest setup.exe from cvs ?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 01:35:31AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
>
>> Sort of.  The problem though is that I'm nearing the completion of some
>> pretty extensive changes to the GUI code, so if there's problems with
>> that in the cvs stuff I might not even know about it.  I did however
>> run across a problem in the INI-parsing code that does prevent it from
>> working.  The problem is with entries in setup.ini that look like this:
>> 
>> @ jbigkit
>> sdesc: "Lossless image compression library"
>> ldesc: "JBIG is a highly effective lossless compression
>> algorithm for bi-level images (one bit per pixel), which
>> is particularly suitable for document pages."
>> category: Graphics Libs
>> requires: cygwin
>> 
>> i.e., that have no "version:" lines in them (what is such an entry
>> supposed to mean, or is this actually a upset bug?).
>
>No, it's a "too aggreesive cleanup" bug.  Chris deleted the jbigkit packages 
>from sourceware, and I haven't had a chance to re-upload them yet.  since 
>the packages aren't there, upset can't figure out what version numbers to 
>use.

So, the solution to that problem is to send email that says "Chris, you screwed
up.  Can you restore the package you deleted?"

>You're not ever supposed to have a setup.hint without any packages.

Not true.

cgf