Re: setup.exe development stalled?

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

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.

Harold