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Re: setup.. release ready?


Robert Collins wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 07:51, John Morrison wrote:
>
>>> I'm waiting to hear back from Max as to whether he intends to offer a
>>> patch (and if so, when & to do what) for the local cache MD5 checks, but
>>> AFAIK thats the only current delay.
>>
>> I also would like to be able to switch off the local cache md5sums,
>> most of my co-workers do a 'local' install from a shared directory
>> (*very* restrictive firewall at work).
>
> That shouldn't prevent you using a local mirror though. Does it prevent
> you using a local mirror?
>
>> HOWEVER, I'm not against releasing setup as stands (it has far
>> too many improvements) if a release with a fix for this was OK'd
>> fairly soon after a patch (commandline off switch?) was checked
>> in.
>
> Well, a command line 'off' switch will do the job. It will require
> conscious decision.. yep, I'm happy with that.
>
> It can go in the next release, which currently has:
> * post install logging
> * Pierre's new security updates
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

No, they haven't been committed yet. Check "cvs diff -r2.340 -rHEAD
ChangeLog".

> * New icon sizes
> * resizable chooser (? if we get the split out patches in the next week
> or so)

Not resizable. Just bigger.

And on that timescale, I can do the md5-on-install-not-on-cachescan thing.


Max.


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