From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14482 invoked by alias); 8 Jan 2003 15:11:56 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 14428 invoked from network); 8 Jan 2003 15:11:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail18.svr.pol.co.uk) (195.92.67.23) by 209.249.29.67 with SMTP; 8 Jan 2003 15:11:54 -0000 Received: from modem-18.maryland.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.137.71.18] helo=pomello) by mail18.svr.pol.co.uk with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 18WHrk-0007NT-00; Wed, 08 Jan 2003 15:11:36 +0000 Message-ID: <000001c2b728$36476a60$1247893e@pomello> From: "Max Bowsher" To: "Dave Hooper" , References: <20030108122603.850B03C67@sitemail.everyone.net> <38500.213.38.17.50.1042029969.squirrel@raq299.uk2net.com> Subject: Setup.exe discussion (was Re: General comments...) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 03:04:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-SW-Source: 2003-01/txt/msg00364.txt.bz2 Dave Hooper wrote: > The major spot I've noticed with slowness is when if you click on the > text "Default" in the packages list (initial view, so whatever that > is, Curr/All I guess), and it takes a million years (without an > hourglass) to change to "Install" Yes. If only I can find a sufficiently contiguous block of free time... > Oh, something somewhere also leaks memory like a seive. I haven't encountered this. Maybe you would like to try the snapshot at http://cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/ ? >> Isn't that kinda up to the user. When you finish downloading new >> packages you kill your internet connection as cygwin setup won't >> need it. > > I totally disagree. Cygwin setup has two phases, download and > install. Install takes almost as long as download on many machines! > So in an ideal world Cygwin would automatically hang up if it had > initially autodialled the internet connection (maybe it does this, > I'm not on dial up), or pop up a message box saying "Finished > downloading, click OK to install" or similar. Autodialling isn't something that (most) programs do. Windows does it for them. So setup doesn't know if a connection was made on it's account or not. Isn't the change from downloading to installing info enough? > Is the source for setup.exe in cvs anyway? Of course it is. http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/