Igor mentioned that he had some ideas for adding some sort of interactive support for cygwin packages so that they could ask questions and interact during installation.
I think that recent events have shown that letting people know what they are getting into before they install a package is something that we really need. So, if anyone is exploring some way of adding an interactive "preinstall" capability to setup.exe, I think I can guarantee some gold stars. What I'd like to consider doing with gcc (and bash?) is checking the version currently running on disk and warning people that what they are doing will require some understanding on their part. Barring any of that, maybe a really simple solution would be to add a screen pointing people to the cygwin-announce archives. cgf
