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Re: suggestion: add "generate file list" button to setup program
- From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>
- To: "Hannu E K Nevalainen" <garbage_collector at telia dot com>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 20:15:33 +0100
- Subject: Re: suggestion: add "generate file list" button to setup program
- References: <NGBBLLIAMFLGJEOAJCCEAEAIDLAA.garbage_collector@telia.com>
Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote:
>> From: Igor Pechtchanski
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 8:02 PM
>
>> On Tue, 25 May 2004, Jan Tisje wrote:
>>
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> please add a button to generate a file list of the files to download.
>>>
>>> That way I may take the file with me and download all the big files
>>> somewhere else.
>>>
>>> bye
>>> Jan
>>
>> Jan,
>>
>> Google for "clean_setup.pl".
>
> Ehm?
> You *meant* to write "mkcygwget", didn't you?
No. clean_setup.pl is better. It performs customizable purging of old
packages from the local downloads, in addition to the list-to-download
function of mkcygwget.
In fact, I hardly ever download packages with setup.exe, and haven't for
years.
Max.
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