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* setup 2.906 release candidate - please test
@ 2021-03-17 20:02 Jon Turney
2021-03-17 20:08 ` Jon Turney
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From: Jon Turney @ 2021-03-17 20:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin-apps
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.
This is not the place for setup feature requests.
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.
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2021-03-17 20:02 Jon Turney
@ 2021-03-17 20:08 ` Jon Turney
2021-04-26 12:00 ` Jon Turney
2021-03-17 21:16 ` Thomas Wolff
2021-03-21 0:33 ` Brian Inglis
2 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Jon Turney @ 2021-03-17 20:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin-apps
On 17/03/2021 20:02, Jon Turney wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> This is not the place for setup feature requests.
Pretty late in preparing this release, I discovered that in Fedora 33,
the MinGW-w64 32-bit compiler has been changed from sjlj to dwarf2
unwinding C++ exception handling.
I believe this means that exceptions cannot propagate up through Windows
code, so the release needs to be delayed until the source code has been
inspected to see if there's any place where e.g. we throw an exception
from a Windows callback, but I'd like to get this out for some testing
already.
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* Re: setup 2.906 release candidate - please test
2021-03-17 20:08 ` Jon Turney
@ 2021-04-26 12:00 ` Jon Turney
0 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Jon Turney @ 2021-04-26 12:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin-apps
On 17/03/2021 20:08, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 17/03/2021 20:02, Jon Turney wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> This is not the place for setup feature requests.
>
> Pretty late in preparing this release, I discovered that in Fedora 33,
> the MinGW-w64 32-bit compiler has been changed from sjlj to dwarf2
> unwinding C++ exception handling.
>
> I believe this means that exceptions cannot propagate up through Windows
> code, so the release needs to be delayed until the source code has been
> inspected to see if there's any place where e.g. we throw an exception
> from a Windows callback, but I'd like to get this out for some testing
> already.
I think that this does effect some error cases, where we throw an error
and expect it to get propagated through a callback.
So for the moment, I've added a configure time check that the x86
compiler is configured with sjlj exceptions, and dropped back to
building on Fedora 32.
Long term, I'm not sure what the best approach is. Using
-fno-exceptions and adjusting the code not to use exceptions would be a
start, but that just leaves us silently exiting if an exception is
thrown from libstdc++...
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* Re: setup 2.906 release candidate - please test
2021-03-17 20:02 Jon Turney
2021-03-17 20:08 ` Jon Turney
@ 2021-03-17 21:16 ` Thomas Wolff
2021-03-17 21:29 ` Ken Brown
2021-03-21 0:33 ` Brian Inglis
2 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Thomas Wolff @ 2021-03-17 21:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin-apps
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.
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* Re: setup 2.906 release candidate - please test
2021-03-17 21:16 ` Thomas Wolff
@ 2021-03-17 21:29 ` Ken Brown
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From: Ken Brown @ 2021-03-17 21:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin-apps
On 3/17/2021 5:16 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> 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.
If you double-click in the New column, I think it will do what you want.
Ken
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* Re: setup 2.906 release candidate - please test
2021-03-17 20:02 Jon Turney
2021-03-17 20:08 ` Jon Turney
2021-03-17 21:16 ` Thomas Wolff
@ 2021-03-21 0:33 ` Brian Inglis
2 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Brian Inglis @ 2021-03-21 0:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin-apps
On 2021-03-17 14:02, Jon Turney wrote:
> 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.
> This is not the place for setup feature requests.
> 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.
Not seeing any issues with this test release.
Sometime in the last while, Cygwin Setup started making the default chooser
column widths 100-200px wide, and I don't see any obviously relevant change in
the log, nor any issues in setup.log.full.
Only unusual occurrence may be /etc/setup/setup.rc chooser_window_settings has
4G-1 in fields 4-7 of window placement, and wondered if those could be getting
used incorrectly for column width calculations?
I'm on Windows 1909 19H1 10.0.18363.1379 until my next update which says it has
20H? pending.
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