setup 2.906 release candidate - please test

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Wed Mar 17 21:29:42 GMT 2021


On 3/17/2021 5:16 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> Am 17.03.2021 um 21:02 schrieb Jon Turney:
>>
>> A new setup release candidate is available at:
>>
>>   https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.906.x86_64.exe (64 bit version)
>>   https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.906.x86.exe    (32 bit version)
>>
>> Please test, and report any problems here.
> I feel the need to take this occasion to woe about the terrible UI of setup. Two 
> years or more ago there was a major revision, sarcastically accompanied by the 
> comment the UI would have been pushed forward to the 90s. Before that, you could 
> simply select a package by clicking one (!) checkbox. Since then, you have to 
> open a popup, scroll to the latest version and click that. This multiplies the 
> effort to do selections significantly and it's quite a nuisance.

If you double-click in the New column, I think it will do what you want.

Ken


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