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Re: moratorium on new setup.exe features, please?
- From: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 13:36:35 -0500
- Subject: Re: moratorium on new setup.exe features, please?
- References: <20020129145831.GA32323@redhat.com>
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> Can we concentrate on releasing a new version of setup.exe, please?
>
> I'd like to eliminate the confusion that the current version of setup.exe
> is causing. It seems like we are in a standard "add one more thing" mode
> when people are experiencing real problems and real confusion with the
> currently released setup.exe.
>
> The only thing that I really wanted for the next release was clickable
> categories. We have quite a bit more than that so I assume there will
> be additional unforeseen headaches coming. This is standard when you
> add new features. The more features you add, the more headaches you'll
> get.
>
> So, lets just concentrate on getting something out the door which solves
> the known issues. The biggest known issue right now is the "How do I
> install everything?"
There's one more urgent issue: I have a bzip2 and libbz2_0 package
waiting for release, and the new setup must be able to handle that
name(*)...I think most of these changes are in Robert's sandbox right
now, but there's also a necessary pending patch to dump_setup.cc(?) in
winsup/utils/
(*) sure, I could rename it, but I really would rather not...
IMO, this change is a bugfix on the current setup.exe, and not a new
feature. YOMV...
--Chuck