Re: Setup.exe and accessability

["lhall at pop dot ma dot ultranet dot com" <lhall at pop dot ma dot ultranet dot com>]

No Igor I understood your intent.  I was just chose your "introduction"
of the topic to restate a general policy of the list, in case anyone felt
there had been any change.  Sorry for "picking on you".

People should feel free to post to this list and have only 1 out of every 2 
posts contain a patch. ;-) ;-) ;-)

Larry


Original Message:
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From: Igor Pechtchanski pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:42:52 -0400 (EDT)
To: lhall@rfk.com, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Setup.exe and accessability


Hmm, did I sound that serious? :-D
	Igor

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com wrote:

> Sorry Igor.  One must always submit a patch in order to post to
> this email list.  Please reformulate all your email (retroactively)
> to be posts in the form of a patch.  Chris, is there any way to
> block posts to this list that aren't patches?  Oops!  My email isn't
> a patch either! ;-) ;-) ;-)
>
> Seriously, no one expects all comments, suggestions, or requests to come
> with patches (at least not on this list ;-) )  I hope no one really has
> that impression.  Generally, I think responses that suggest submitting a
> patch are meant to indicate to the original poster that the request or
> comment would see more immediate fruition if a patch is included. 
Sometimes
> folks expect there's an idle group of developers just hanging around
waiting
> to jump on the next request from the list.  Even if the current audience
> doesn't have that perception, making a clear statement that someone who
may
> later search the archives can find is often helpful.  So please don't be
> offended by any response suggesting a patch... unless it makes you want to
> submit one! ;-)
>
> Larry
>
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Igor Pechtchanski pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:03:31 -0400 (EDT)
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Setup.exe and accessability
>
>
> On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 02:05:14PM +0200, Lars Bj?rndal wrote:
> > >As far I can see, you can not select individual packages within
> > >setup.exe without using the mouse. I'm blind, and therefore I can not
> > >install cygwin without assistance from a sighted person. Is it
> > >possible that this will be changed in the next version? Or is there a
> > >posibility that I have not seen?
> >
> > The only thing that I can think of that could possibly be of use is
> > the oft-mentioned command line options for setup.exe.  Various people
> > have mentioned that they were going to work on this but I've never
> > seen anyone (besides Robert of course) follow through on fully realizing
> > this to the point where you can install packages from the command line.
>
> Adding keyboard shortcuts to the package selection screen (i.e., <Tab>bing
> to the Action column and the checkboxes) would do it as well, I suppose.
> "Did I phrase that sufficiently neutrally to avoid being asked to submit a
> patch?" (C) R. Schulz.
> 	Igor

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