Re: setup 2.906 release candidate - please test

[Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>]

Am 17.03.2021 um 21:02 schrieb Jon Turney:
>
> A new setup release candidate is available at:
>
>   https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.906.x86_64.exe (64 bit version)
>   https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.906.x86.exe    (32 bit version)
>
> Please test, and report any problems here.
I feel the need to take this occasion to woe about the terrible UI of 
setup. Two years or more ago there was a major revision, sarcastically 
accompanied by the comment the UI would have been pushed forward to the 
90s. Before that, you could simply select a package by clicking one (!) 
checkbox. Since then, you have to open a popup, scroll to the latest 
version and click that. This multiplies the effort to do selections 
significantly and it's quite a nuisance.
>
> This is not the place for setup feature requests.
It's not a feature as it was much better before; it's a regression. Can 
we please get back a fast-usable interface?
Thomas

>
> Changes compared to 2.905:
>
> - If a selected site URL saved from the last run starts with 
> "http://", and an identical URL, except starting with "https://", is 
> in the current mirror list, migrate it from "http://" to "https://".
>
> - Propagate the value of the CYGWIN environment variable into 
> post-install and pre-remove scripts (Thanks to Michael Wild for this 
> patch).
>   Partially addresses: 
> https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2020-August/245994.html
>
> - Warn about unknown package names used with '--packages' or 
> '--remove-packages' options.
>
> - Move (potentially localizable) installation progress and package 
> action strings to string table resource.
>
> - Fix new warnings and build issues with gcc 10.