Re: setup.exe needs package name selection filter

On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 12:16:06PM +0100, Hugh Sasse wrote: > >So would you prefer that I NOT suggest a patch to > >. > >to draw people's attention to the existing Bugzilla? > > The contrib.html page has nothing

Re: setup.exe needs package name selection filter

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 12:16:06PM +0100, Hugh Sasse wrote: >So would you prefer that I NOT suggest a patch to >. >to draw people's attention to the existing Bugzilla? The contrib.html page has nothing to do with setup. If this information is important it shou

Re: setup.exe needs package name selection filter

Hugh Sasse schrieb: On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Reini Urban wrote: Hugh Sasse schrieb: On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Christopher Faylor wrote: [...] set? Were I in this position, I'd rather not have to trawl the mail archives. That's the only mechanism suggested at

Re: setup.exe needs package name selection filter

On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Reini Urban wrote: > Hugh Sasse schrieb: > > On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Christopher Faylor wrote: [...] > > set? Were I in this position, I'd rather not have to trawl the mail > > archives. That's the only mechanism suggested at > > .

Re: setup.exe needs package name selection filter

Hugh Sasse schrieb: On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:49:21PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Mark J. Reed wrote: [...] Actually, it already exists: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=cygwin . But I don't know how often setu

Re: setup.exe needs package name selection filter

On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:49:21PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > Mark J. Reed wrote: [...] > Actually, it already exists: > http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=cygwin . > > But I don't know how often setup.exe devel

Re: setup.exe needs package name selection filter

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:46:35PM -0400, NightStrike wrote: >On 6/20/08, Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>It's definitely a good suggestion, quite possibly a great suggestion. >> >>However, having made it, it is now just going to sit there in the mail >>archive for ever and ever and not ever

Re: setup.exe needs package name selection filter

On 6/20/08, Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's definitely a good suggestion, quite possibly a great suggestion. > > However, having made it, it is now just going to sit there in the mail > archive for ever and ever and not ever do anything all by itself. > > I think the point that cg

Re: setup.exe needs package name selection filter

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > And, observations about choosing a mirror being "annoying" don't really > help and likely illustrate some fundamental process misunderstanding. > What would you do if you didn't choose a mirror? Assume that the last > one you used was u

Re: setup.exe needs package name selection filter

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:49:21PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Mark J. Reed wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Eric Blake wrote: >>> [Please avoid http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU - don't top-post] >>> [Please avoid feeding the spammers - >>> http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIY

Re: setup.exe needs package name selection filter

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Mark J. Reed wrote: >> Sorry, I need to stop using GMail Mobile to post to this list. It >> leaves me no option about either of those. > > I assume you mean beyond doing this manually. Unfortunately, no. I don't mind rearranging quot

Re: setup.exe needs package name selection filter

Mark J. Reed wrote: On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Eric Blake wrote: [Please avoid http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU - don't top-post] [Please avoid feeding the spammers - http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR ] Sorry, I need to stop using GMail Mobile to post to this list. It leaves me

Re: setup.exe needs package name selection filter

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > [Please avoid http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU - don't top-post] > [Please avoid feeding the spammers - > http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR ] Sorry, I need to stop using GMail Mobile to post to this list. It leaves me no option about ei

Re: setup.exe needs package name selection filter

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [Please avoid http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU - don't top-post] [Please avoid feeding the spammers - http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR ] According to Mark J. Reed on 6/20/2008 6:23 AM: | Is there a ticketing/tracking system for Cygwin where

Re: setup.exe needs package name selection filter

Is there a ticketing/tracking system for Cygwin where one can submit feature requests? I think having it documented in the system as something more than someone's wishful email would be helpful. As far as improvements to setup.exe, I think the Cygwin team could potentially save a lot of effort in

RE: setup.exe needs package name selection filter

On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Dave Korn wrote: > reikred wrote on 20 June 2008 02:08: > > > Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> > >> Yes. It's called > >> > "make-setup.exe-demands-and-then-sit-back-and-wait-for-people-to-implement-y > [EMAIL PROTECTED]" > >> > >> cgf > >> [...] > > > > Please rea

RE: setup.exe needs package name selection filter

reikred wrote on 20 June 2008 02:08: > Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 09:51:03AM +0900, wynfield wrote: >>> I agree with reikred below. Search, functionality would be greatly >>> appreciated. It seems crude to have to scroll page by page and manually >>> look for a searched

Re: setup.exe needs package name selection filter

Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 09:51:03AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with reikred below. Search, functionality would be greatly appreciated. It seems crude to have to scroll page by page and manually look for a searched for package. But, I suspect that, this is

Re: setup.exe needs package name selection filter

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 09:51:03AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I agree with reikred below. Search, functionality would be greatly >appreciated. It seems crude to have to scroll page by page and manually >look for a searched for package. > >But, I suspect that, this isn't the list to write ab

Re: setup.exe needs package name selection filter

I agree with reikred below. Search, functionality would be greatly appreciated. It seems crude to have to scroll page by page and manually look for a searched for package. But, I suspect that, this isn't the list to write about setup.exe I believe it has its own list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

setup.exe needs package name selection filter

I find that scrolling through all the packages shown in the package selection window of setup.exe can be very tedious. Sometime I don't know exactly what a package is called, other times I am hunting around on a hunch, but in any case I do not want to scroll through the whole list to find it. So