[ANNOUNCEMENT] Setup.exe 2.340.2.5 released

[Igor Pechtchanski]

Ah, yes, it was getting this info from setup.bz2/.ini.  That should be
regenerated.  Thanks for the heads-up, Vince.
	Igor

On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Vince Hoffman wrote:

> Didnt setup use to tell you if there was a new version available (i'm sure i
> remember that)
> version 2.249.2.5 isnt telling me that.
>  (purely an FYI as thats at least one version out of date)
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Collins" <rbcollins@cygwin.com>
> To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 9:21 PM
> Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Setup.exe 2.340.2.5 released
>
> > A new release of setup.exe has occured.
> >
> > The new version is available from
> > http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe as usual.
> >
> > Thank you very much to all the beta testers, who did a great job of
> > providing feedback, allowing this release to proceed!
> >
> >  ====   Release Notes   ====
> >
> > CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS RELEASE (alphabetical order):
> >
> > Abraham Backus  <abraham@backus.com>
> > Brian Keener  <bkeener@thesoftwaresource.com>
> > Christopher Faylor  <cgf@redhat.com>
> > Gary R. Van Sickle  <g.r.vansickle@worldnet.att.net>
> > John Marshall  <johnm@falch.net>
> > Marcel Telka  <marcel@telka.sk>
> > Max Bowsher  <maxb@ukf.net>
> > Igor Pechtchanski  <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
> > Pavel Tsekov  <ptsekov@gmx.net>
> > Robert Collins  <rbtcollins@hotmail.com>
> >
> > USER-VISIBLE CHANGES:
> > Fix 'Can't open (null) for reading' errors.
> > Setup now checks bz2 (de)compression status rather than spewing TODO's
> > into setup.log.full.
> > Returning to the chooser from another page will now refresh the view.
> > Packages with corrupt md5's in the source that are being upgraded will
> > popup a warning, rather than uninstalling and then failing to install
> > the new version.
> > Setup is now more helpful when reporting what log file to look in if
> > errors occured.
> > Setup now has two new views - skipped packages (won't be installed) and
> > one for
> > packages that don't need updating.
> > New chooser 'keep' button to change the default activity on packages to
> > not upgrade - useful when installing a single new package.
> > Show all categories in the chooser, not just the first package.
> > Setup will detect and optionally disable McAfee during installation,
> > hopefully reducing the bluescreens some users have reported.
> > Use per-screen window titles.
> > Packages without accessible download sites won't be available for
> > installing.
> > Updating a user-site in the downloads site list will replace previous
> > sites at the same server.
> > Parsing of the setup.bz2/.ini files is reported via a progress bar, so
> > that setup does not appear to hang after the downloads.
> >
> > BUGFIXES:
> > Run post-install scripts in the order of dependencies, to ensure that
> > packages are fully setup before scripts from other, dependent packages
> > run.
> > Prevent a handle leak when running scripts.
> > Prevent an access violation with some throw exceptions.
> > Only place the tcp port in http requests when it's not port 80.
> > Decode FTP 227 replies more robustly.
> > Compile with gcc3.
> >
> > NEW FEATURES (That aren't user visible):
> > Support for parsing debian Packages and Sources tags in setup.ini/bz2.
> > Support for versioned dependencies.
> > ntsec integration to setup default ACL's on installed files correctly.
> > Logs files to be replaced on reboot.
> > Update included zlib to 1.1.4.
> > Partial unattended mode support.
> > The IE5 network option no longer prevents the use of cached data, which
> > significantly increases performance.

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