Re: setup.exe development stalled?

[Robert Collins <rbcollins at cygwin dot com>]

On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 05:33, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> > It seems like development for setup.exe is sort of stalled.
> 
> I agree completely.
> 
> > At the very least, it would be nice to get out a new release which
> > resized correctly.  I know that the current implementation isn't perfect
> > but I wonder if it is better than the alternative of having a new user a
> > week sending in a suggestion that the browser should be resizeable.
> > 
> > Can we release setup.exe as is and maybe think about revitalizing
> > development somehow?  It would be nice if all of the things that
> > the parser understands were actually understand by the rest of
> > the program.
> 
> I would like to see this very much and think it is a wise decision.
> 
> In six days there has been zero discussion of this.  Does that mean that 
> setup.exe maintainership is up for grabs?  If so, I've got things that I 
> need to start doing with setup.exe, so I would be very interested in 
> taking responsibility for setup.exe.  I have the time for it now as 
> well, and a project I am working on will really need setup.exe to be 
> more robust and reliable (such as not blindly and silently unpacking 
> files to mount points that do not point to physical disk locations).
> 
> I'll start working on setup.exe next week and see how the maintainership 
> question develops.

The 6 days means that I'm in the middle of changing jobs. Starting April
I have a new job with (hopefully) more personal time to do things like
setup.exe. I don't consider the maintainership up for grabs - but please
do start work on setup.exe, I'll happily review patches & we have 3 folk
with commit access who can commit. Assuming your patches are of high
quality, there is no reason that you can't get commit rights in the
future too.

Rob


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