On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 07:32:49PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote: >Christopher Faylor schrieb: >>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. > >Announce an upload before it is uploaded? I could live with that. > >An upload with a setup.ini section for this screen would then point to >the archive url.
I don't think it can or should be a part of setup.ini. It would have to be something in the package itself since, otherwise, it wouldn't be able to check the disk for existing packages. cgf
