[PATCH setup] Add --allow-test-versions

David Allsopp David.Allsopp@cl.cam.ac.uk
Fri Apr 23 13:11:28 GMT 2021


Jon Turney wrote:
> On 20/04/2021 15:37, David Allsopp via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> > Attached adds -t/--allow-test-packages to Setup which controls the
> > initial state of the "Test" checkbox.
> >
> > Motivation is to allow one CI cron job to be installing test versions
> > of packages, then we can help identify things like [1] before they're
> released.
> 
> Nice.  Thanks.
> 
> > +static BoolOption AllowTestOption (false, 't', "allow-test-packages",
> > +"Permit installation of package versions marked test");
> 
> The only quibble I have is the help text here.  The user has always been
> permitted to choose test packages, this checkbox allows setup to decide to
> use them itself.
> 
> So maybe something like "Consider package versions marked test".

No problem - see attached.

All best,


David
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