Drop textmode from setup?

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Sep  7 07:02, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> 
> > My first response was "Well, if you're prepared to deal with people saying
> > <<I created a file in Cygwin, and opened it in Notepad, and now it looks
> > like one big line>>, go for it"...  Then I realized it's not true for all
> > programs (e.g., "vi" doesn't do that), but let's review some of the
> > possible complaints, so that we're prepared to handle them.
> 
> The right way to handle this is with good documentation.  We'd need to
> update the users guide and/or FAQ to reflect the fact that textmode is
> gone from setup.exe but can still be used, with examples of how to mount
> a subdirectory as textmode.  And a FAQ about "I tried to edit my source
> code in Notepad, blah blah blah".

We already have a fairly detailed entry which is what the URL in the
related setup.exe dialog points to.  If you want to add words, go ahead.

> > Yes, definitely.  It's been time for a while.  There were some outstanding
> > issues -- IIRC, at least one has been fixed.  Brian, what do you say?
> 
> Yeah, we should Just Do It.  The thing of "well there are still bugs to
> fix" is a cop-out.  At least, the current version is not worse than the
> stable release.

Cool.  Are you going to replace setup.exe on sourceware's release tree
and send an announcement to cygwin-announce?


Corinna

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