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RE: Success report: Setup.exe on Windows 2000.
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: "Cygwin-Apps" <cygwin-apps at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 04:40:30 -0600
- Subject: RE: Success report: Setup.exe on Windows 2000.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Robert Collins
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g.r.vansickle@worldnet.att.net>
>
> > One problem I've been seeing for a while Rob is that the package
> descriptions in
> > the chooser window are only showing up on maybe 25% of the pagckages,
> and just
> > the package names on the rest. The old setup shows them on all
> packages. Are
> > you seeing this too / known problem?
>
> Can you name a specific package that doesn't show. Is it consistent?
> (No, never heard of this happening).
>
> Rob
Actually now that I take a look, it's much worse than 25% - more like 5%.
Example: nothing in BASE is showing a description, ash, bash, cygwin, all the
way down the line. The view doesn't appear to matter.
setup.ini's look ok; here's the ash entry:
"
# This file is automatically generated. If you edit it, your
# edits will be discarded next time the file is generated.
# See http://cygwin.com/setup.html for details.
#
setup-timestamp: 1009834202
setup-version: 2.125.2.10
@ ash
sdesc: "A Bourne Shell (/bin/sh) workalike"
category: Base Shells
requires: cygwin
version: 20011018-1
install: latest/ash/ash-20011018-1.tar.bz2 33819
source: latest/ash/ash-20011018-1-src.tar.bz2 143186
....
"
--
Gary R. Van Sickle
Brewer. Patriot.