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Re: Small setup.exe suggestion
- To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Small setup.exe suggestion
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 11:25:14 -0400
- References: <200006020821.KAA00949@cerbere.u-strasbg.fr>
- Reply-To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
My standard reply to this is:
Good ideas are cheap, contributions are gold.
If you have a good idea try making the change yourself and submitting
a patch. That is the best way to make your good idea a reality.
cgf
On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 09:59:43AM +0200, Pierre Muller wrote:
> Would it be possible to add some progress info on downloading ?
>
> Some files are very big and if connection is bad it ca take quite long to
>download it !
>A simple XX% at the end of
>downloading xxx;tar.gz
>would be enough to let people know that the setup program is really working
>and
>that the connection is not dead.
>
> A second suggestion, but that might be much more work would be an
>option that would create a listing of all available packages
>with the status of the currently locally available.
>
> This would for instance inform you that there is a newer bash version
>if you type "setup -l" (or any other option if this onee is already used.
>
> Other than that I find this program really good,
>its so simple to upgrade a package.
>
> Thanks for CygWin.
>
>
>Pierre Muller
>Institut Charles Sadron
>6,rue Boussingault
>F 67083 STRASBOURG CEDEX (France)
>mailto:muller@ics.u-strasbg.fr
>Phone : (33)-3-88-41-40-07 Fax : (33)-3-88-41-40-99
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