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Re: [PATCH] Remove Prev button from setup.exe's chooser page
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 02:32:01PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Jul 17 20:26, Andy Koppe wrote:
>> Attached is a patch for removing the Prev radio button from
>> setup.exe's chooser page. As previously discussed at [1], that button
>> doesn't really serve any useful purpose. It might mislead people into
>> thinking that it delivers a somewhat outdated but proven Cygwin, when
>> in fact it delivers a rather random mix of packages of widely varying
>> age that is unlikely to actually work together.
>>
>> Also attached is a documentation change to go with this.
>>
>> Andy
>>
>>
>> [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-08/msg00890.html
>>
>>
>> cygwin-apps/setup/ChangeLog:
>> * res.rc: Remove Prev button from chooser page.
>> * resource.h: Reflect removal of Prev button.
>> * package_meta.h (trustp): Ditto.
>> * choose.cc: Ditto.
>>
>> winsup/doc/ChangeLog:
>> * setup-net.sgml (setup-packages): Reflect removal of Prev button.
>> Also document Keep button and improve description of Exp button.
>
>I guess that patch is ok. I never use the Prev button since it turned
>out to be quite dangerous and never did what I wanted. I'd say, go for
>it.
Ditto.
cgf