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RE: cygwin.com suggestions
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: <felixmendelssohnn at mail dot earthlink dot net>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 17:38:17 +1100
- Subject: RE: cygwin.com suggestions
> -----Original Message-----
> From: felixmendelssohnn@mail.earthlink.net
>
> Here are a couple of suggestions for making the cygwin.com
> website more
> helpful.
Thanks for your suggestions, feedback on them in-line.
> 1) Include the current version number of setup.exe on the front page.
> Otherwise, there is no way for the infrequent visitor to the
> website to
> know if setup.exe has been updated other than to re-download
> and run it.
Setup.exe will warn you if it is out of date - the online data includes
the current version of setup.exe in the ini file. Having the version
number on the website is thus redudant.
> 2) Include in the FAQ (or somewhere) a section on "How to
> Safely Update the
> Cygwin dll". Probably just "shut down all cygwin apps,
> including daemons",
> but it would be useful to know for sure.
The next release of setup.exe automatically address's this and will
replace in-use .dll's.
> 3) Include or link those instructions in announcements of new
> Cygwin dll
> releases.
>
> Do these make sense?
They do, but as you can see we already have in place other measures to
address the same issues.
Rob
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