Dave wrote:
Definitely go for a dialog box.
Revised patch attached.
Sorry, but I have to reject this patch.
The MessageBox output takes no account of the fact that it is being
displayed in a proportional-width font, and as a result comes out
impressively mangled.
As the reality is that the comma
>On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 02:43:35PM -0800, Dave wrote:
>>* Print help to messagebox. Could also send it to stdout in case the user
>>happens to be running from bash. [patches in this thread]
>
>It makes no sense that this would work from bash unless:
>
>http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004
Robert Collins wrote:
I'll note that I started work on having a separate console program,
which would be guiless, for just this reason.
Interesting... should I expect a branch to show up in setup CVS any time
soon? :-)
Max.
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 01:08 +, Max Bowsher wrote:
>
> I am currently quite strongly opposed to turning setup.exe into a
> console
> app just to display help text. Please bear in mind that any command
> line
> options that setup has are purely for advanced automation uses - they
> are
> not
Brian Dessent wrote:
Dave wrote:
Leaving:
* Print help to messagebox. Could also send it to stdout in case the user
happens to be running from bash. [patches in this thread]
* Make setup a console program which hides the console as soon as it
determines it doesn't need it. Probably leading to Ye ol
Dave wrote:
> Leaving:
> * Print help to messagebox. Could also send it to stdout in case the user
> happens to be running from bash. [patches in this thread]
> * Make setup a console program which hides the console as soon as it
> determines
> it doesn't need it. Probably leading to Ye olde flas
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 02:43:35PM -0800, Dave wrote:
>* Print help to messagebox. Could also send it to stdout in case the user
>happens to be running from bash. [patches in this thread]
It makes no sense that this would work from bash unless:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-11/msg
Brian wrote:
>Upon looking at the patch again it looks like it also spits the usage
>text into the setup log, which I suppose is sufficient. Much better
>than having nothing.
Just to clarify, the patch actually stops the usage text going into the log. It
just notes in the usage log that it is out
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 05:47:58PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote:
>Christopher Faylor schrieb:
>>On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 10:32:29AM +0100, Reini Urban wrote:
>>>Unfortunately we need -mwindows.
>>
>>No. We don't. What do you think -mwindows implies?
>>
>> From the gcc spec file:
>>*link:
>> %{mwindows
Christopher Faylor schrieb:
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 10:32:29AM +0100, Reini Urban wrote:
Christopher Faylor schrieb:
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 08:53:41PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote:
Christopher Faylor schrieb:
Applications linked with -mwindows (i.e., GUI apps) can't print to
stdout. How does this act
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 10:32:29AM +0100, Reini Urban wrote:
>Christopher Faylor schrieb:
>>On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 08:53:41PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote:
>>
>>>Christopher Faylor schrieb:
>>>
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 10:10:58AM +0100, Reini Urban wrote:
>Dave schrieb:
>
>
>>
Christopher Faylor schrieb:
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 08:53:41PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote:
Christopher Faylor schrieb:
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 10:10:58AM +0100, Reini Urban wrote:
Dave schrieb:
Here's a simple and useful patch for setup. Might reduce queries about
unattended installs, and save peop
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski
[snip]
>
> This has little bearing on the current discussion, but did
> you ever try just pressing Ctrl-C while in the dialog box?
> On Win2k/XP this should copy the contents of th
[snip]
> I really don't understand why we should stand on our heads to
> make setup.exe a console subsystem program (you don't need to
> both specify -mwindows and -Wl,--subsystem=console, btw) when
> you can just open up a dialog box to display the options,
> like every other windows program i
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Brian Dessent wrote:
>
> > I haven't tried your patch, but if you make a dialog how about one that
> > you can select and copy the text from, like a simple read-only richedit
> > control? I always hated pop-up dialog boxes that contained vital
> > i
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Dave wrote:
>
> > Definitely go for a dialog box.
> >
> > Revised patch attached. Should these be directed exclusively at
> > bugzilla now?
>
> I haven't tried your patch, but if you make a dialog how about one that
> you can select and copy the text fro
Dave wrote:
> Definitely go for a dialog box.
>
> Revised patch attached. Should these be directed exclusively at bugzilla now?
I haven't tried your patch, but if you make a dialog how about one that
you can select and copy the text from, like a simple read-only richedit
control? I always hated
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 03:27:20PM -0800, Dave wrote:
>Hmmm. Just wonderring... Yep. OK. I see the output of stdout when
>setup is run from bash. It doesn't appear if running from cmd. That
>explains it.
You must be using CYGWIN=tty then, maybe? That would explain this.
>Revised patch atta
cgf said:
>On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 08:53:41PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote:
>>Christopher Faylor schrieb:
>>>On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 10:10:58AM +0100, Reini Urban wrote:
>>>
>>>Actually, there was a thread about this on the cygwin list not too long
>>>ago.
>>
>>Yep. This suggested a complicated trick.
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 08:53:41PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote:
>Christopher Faylor schrieb:
>>On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 10:10:58AM +0100, Reini Urban wrote:
>>
>>>Dave schrieb:
>>>
Here's a simple and useful patch for setup. Might reduce queries about
unattended installs, and save people having
Christopher Faylor schrieb:
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 10:10:58AM +0100, Reini Urban wrote:
Dave schrieb:
Here's a simple and useful patch for setup. Might reduce queries about
unattended installs, and save people having to resort to source.
Patch is against CVS (as of yesterday).
Modify the leader te
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 10:10:58AM +0100, Reini Urban wrote:
>Dave schrieb:
>>Here's a simple and useful patch for setup. Might reduce queries about
>>unattended installs, and save people having to resort to source.
>>
>>Patch is against CVS (as of yesterday).
>>Modify the leader text as you see fi
Dave schrieb:
Here's a simple and useful patch for setup. Might reduce queries about
unattended installs, and save people having to resort to source.
Patch is against CVS (as of yesterday).
Modify the leader text as you see fit :)
Dave Kilroy.
---
Dave schrieb:
Here's a simple and useful patch for setup. Might reduce queries about
unattended installs, and save people having to resort to source.
Patch is against CVS (as of yesterday).
Modify the leader text as you see fit :)
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