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From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: David Allsopp <David.Allsopp@cl.cam.ac.uk>,
	"cygwin-apps@cygwin.com" <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH setup] Add --allow-test-versions
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 12:49:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d5156985-f737-ef0f-1d94-cc3ea43340a5@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f8055c989efb4abf9de14ee65326999a@metastack.com>

On 23/04/2021 14:11, David Allsopp via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> Jon Turney wrote:
>> On 20/04/2021 15:37, David Allsopp via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>> Attached adds -t/--allow-test-packages to Setup which controls the
>>> initial state of the "Test" checkbox.
>>>
>>> Motivation is to allow one CI cron job to be installing test versions
>>> of packages, then we can help identify things like [1] before they're
>> released.
>>
>> Nice.  Thanks.
>>
>>> +static BoolOption AllowTestOption (false, 't', "allow-test-packages",
>>> +"Permit installation of package versions marked test");
>>
>> The only quibble I have is the help text here.  The user has always been
>> permitted to choose test packages, this checkbox allows setup to decide to
>> use them itself.
>>
>> So maybe something like "Consider package versions marked test".
> 
> No problem - see attached.
> 

Thanks for producing an updated patch!

      reply	other threads:[~2021-04-26 11:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-20 14:37 David Allsopp
2021-04-23 13:00 ` Jon Turney
2021-04-23 13:11   ` David Allsopp
2021-04-26 11:49     ` Jon Turney [this message]

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