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Re: setup ChangeLog IniDBBuilder.h IniDBBuilderPac ...


On Dec 17 17:01, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Dec 17 10:52, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 02:12:15PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > >On Dec 16 13:40, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > >> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 06:18:38PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > >> >But we discussed this on the developers list.  The old setup will be
> > >> >setup-legacy.exe and setup.exe is only for 1.7 and later.  I'm rather
> > >> >puzzled that you want to change this again.  I have matching local
> > >> >changes to the web page waiting.  Please don't change this again.
> > >> 
> > >> Since I have to change source code to understand the "release-legacy"
> > >> directory, I opted to just do it in the trunk rather than the ancient
> > >> setup 1.5 branch.  There will still be a setup-legacy binary.
> > >
> > >Ok.  The problem is just this.  If setup.exe still works for 9x users
> > >and just access setup-legacy.ini, they will never see that they are
> > >accessing an unsupported repository.  That's why I now think that
> > >setup.exe should give them a warning instead.  They should explicitely
> > >be forced to use setup-legacy.exe if they updated at all.
> > 
> > "There will still be a setup-legacy binary" != "setup.exe will seem to
> > work just fine for Windows 9x users".
> 
> You wrote that you would like setup to work on 9x again and that's what
> I'm talking about.  I didn't mean to imply anything about setup-legacy.
> It's all about setup.  Details might be helpful.

Is there a chance we can release 1.7.1 before Christmas?


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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