Re: [PATCH] setup.exe case-insensitive package sorting

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:46:02PM -0600, Warren Young wrote:
>This patch is incomplete, but I've been fighting this for four hours 
>now.  I'm tired, hungry, and frustrated, so in case I don't get back to 
>finishing this, I decided to just post what I have so far.
>
>The point of the patch is to get the Select Packages screen's package 
>lists to sort case-insensitively.
>
>(This saga began after I spent far too long looking for the R package 
>down in the bottom third of the Interpreters category.)
>
>The patch works for the flat views only.  I have yet to figure out how 
>to do the same for the Category tree view, since that is treated as a 
>completely separate exception case in the code.
>
>(Any setup.exe hackers want to opine on whether it's reasonable for it 
>to have required 3 hours of spelunking through the package DB reader, 
>the INI file parser, and the dialog chaining system to find out where to 
>even begin attempting the patch?  Did I make par?  Was there a map to 
>this twisty maze of global variables that I missed?)

You want us to weigh in on your being tired and frustrated and unable
to figure out source code?  I'm going to carefully lay down that loaded
weapon.

I modified "upset" to do case insensitive sorting of packages.  This seems
preferable to adding YA level of complexity to setup.

cgf