[PATCH chere 0/4] Overview of chere patches

[Mark Geisert]

Hi Vadim,

On 8/8/2025 6:05 AM, Vadim (vadcx) via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 8/8/25 10:58, Mark Geisert wrote:
> 
>>> *Further work*
>>> 1. As TODO states, automatically elevate privileges using UAC
>>> (see my next feature patch to cygutils/cygstart)
>>> 2. Populate icon and more fields in Uninstaller entry
>>> 3. Consider inclusion in Cygwin installer as a user choice? Then chere
>>> would need to be way more robust and not just fail on lack of rights
>>> and an exit code of 0.
>>> 4. Consider rewriting uninstaller to call a Batch script, chicken and
>>> egg problem as it requires Cygwin env to uninstall itself.
>>
>> These seem like plausible future work items; is there a TODO file in 
>> the package you could add these to?  Or maybe create one in another 
>> patch?
> Hi Mark,
> 
> yes indeed, there's a TODO in the file in comments at the top. My own 
> notes came as an afterthought, which is why it's in the patch overview. 
> I can work towards some of these items in chere, now that I know there's 
> someone to potentially accept my patches :)
> 
> If you want me to add this paragraph to code now - not a problem. Is it 
> OK to attach it as a 5/5 patch to the current series? I think it could 
> be applied out of order anyway, without conflicts.

I've been advised off-list that chere is not currently in the 
cygwin-apps git repository.  I will work on getting the current release 
version situated there as a known-good base.  Then I'll review and 
likely apply your patches, then build a test release.

If you want to work on a 5/5 patch, feel free.  I can easily add it to 
the test release before final release of the new version.
Thanks & Regards,

..mark