On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, peter garrone wrote: > Hi, I thought I would note some desirable features in setup > that would save dickheads such as myself much time. > > - Have setup check with the mirror to see if the setup program itself > has been upgraded. For people who dont read announcements.
It already does that. > - If installing from the local directory, possibly only do the MD5 > checksum for packages that are actually going to be installed, > because it now checks every package whenever it starts. Or > at least after an install cycle is complete, allow an option to go back, > so the recheck can skipped, or even both these ideas. <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC>. Also see below. > - That "packages" directory default. Sometimes setup drops "packages" > from its default, allowing very wierd directory hierarchies indeed, > if downloading from somewhere. From bitter experience, I always make > sure this particular field ends in "packages". I don't get this one at all. What are you trying to say? > - Have some of those little popup messages on the title, i.e. b -> binary, > s->source, after an interval the only b and s I can think of is > bachelors and spinsters. resizeable window perhaps. You can't resize the window, but you *can* widen individual columns so more of the title shows. A resizeable chooser is in development. > Dont get me wrong, my admiration for setup is boundless, mainly because > it is the only thing that can punch through our corporate firewall, besides > internet explorer. Be great to have source for it, or at least a cvs grab > utility based on it. <http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html> tells you where to get the sources. Happy developing. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
