new setup (again!)

[Bernard Dautrevaux]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: DJ Delorie [ mailto:dj@delorie.com ]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 3:17 AM
> To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: new setup (again!)
> 
> 
> 
> Yes, it's yet another setup upgrade!  I hope I'm not boring anyone
> yet... ;-)  If any of these affect you, please test them and let me
> know how well they work for you.
> 
> Changes:
> 
> When downloading only, the chooser by default only shows you the files
> it will be downloading, rather than all of them.
> 
> If IE5 isn't installed, setup complains instead of crashing.
> 
> You can use direct HTTP/FTP or manual proxies instead of IE5.
> 
> I fixed the log-to-missing-directory bug.
> 
> You can now select "Uninstall" in the chooser to remove packages
> (you'll have to hit the "full/part" button to get a full list).
> 
> Files obsoleted by an upgrade are removed.
> 
> The mirror list URL reflects the "sources.redhat.com" name :-)
> 


Great! all this seems very nice.

However there's one thing that bothers me: setup.exe gives NO way to get the
sources for the packages intalled ;-( 

I know we can FTP them manually, but keeping the source files up-to-date
with a given install is quite cumbersome, while it seems it should be simple
to allow to download sources together with binaries.

OK! don't hit too fast the 'Answer "Patches welcome"' button of your mailer
:-) I've tried to look at this but setup.exe seems to be very intensively
developped right now, so I'm not sure this is very practical, ignoring the
fact I can't access CVS for now so has to stick to old setup sources :(

So please just get this as a proposition for addition to the TODO list (and
I'll try to look at this later when I can get CVS access if nobody can
before me).

Thanks

	Bernard

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