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setup.exe complaints
- To: Michael Dyck <MichaelDyck at home dot com>
- Subject: setup.exe complaints
- From: David Starks-Browning <starksb at ebi dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 12:15:16 +0100
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- References: <3B1D4C8D.1B74D36B@home.com>
On Tuesday 5 Jun 01, Michael Dyck writes:
> Before I start complaining, I'd like to say that Cygwin is great. And I'm
> sure setup.exe is a vast improvement over past mechanisms, but I'm still
> frustrated with it.
>
> 1) I ran my local copy of setup.exe and it told me there was a newer version
> that I might like to get.
Wow! That's really cool. I didn't know it did that, so I've been
dutifully downloading a new http://cygwin.com/setup.exe every time I
run setup, just in case it's changed. This feature makes things much
easier, many thanks to whomever implemented it.
As for the remaining comments:
> 2) latest/README talks about the "Install from Current Directory"
> option, ...
>
> 3) At first, I wasn't entirely clear on the distinction between
> "local package directory" and "install root directory". ...
>
> 4) I'm puzzled by the "Select packages to download/install" window. ...
>
> ...
>
> It seems to me that at least some of these questions are the sort of thing
> that latest/README and/or http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_2.html should
> address.
>
I agree that the latest/README file and FAQ need an overhaul in these
respects. I'll look into that.
> Thanks,
> -Michael Dyck
Regards,
David (Cygwin FAQ maintainer)
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