Corinna Vinschen writes: >> Otherwise, I am nervous about setting a precedent for a package that could >> give different contents each time it is installed (yes, Microsoft, I'm >> looking at you too). And there are plenty of corner cases where this >> wouldn't work: offline installs, web proxies, or if the account performing >> the Cygwin install (e.g. Administrator) was blocked from accessing the web >> (on security grounds). > > This is another interesting point of course. Does wget or curl allow > to specify a (short) timeout before giving up and just not installing > anything, perhaps?
Regardless if that is possible (I think it is), I would not accept such a package into the standard distribution. For one, setup is not really equipped to handle such packages properly. Two, I really can't allow anything to download something from outside the internal network during the installation even where it might work. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adaptations for Waldorf Q V3.00R3 and Q+ V3.54R2: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSDada
