Re: Small setup.exe suggestion

Re: Small setup.exe suggestion

[Chris Faylor]

On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 12:00:10PM -0500, Parker, Ron wrote:
>> If you have a good idea try making the change yourself and submitting
>> a patch.  That is the best way to make your good idea a reality.
>
>Except in this case because DJ is overhauling setup and has, as I understand
>it, requested that everyone hold off on patching setup.

True, I'm sure that DJ could incorporate patches if necessary.  Checking out
the current sources and inspecting them would be a good start on providing
improvements even with DJ's overhaul.

cgf

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Re: Small setup.exe suggestion

[DJ Delorie]

>   Would it be possible to add some progress info on downloading ?

I've already done this in my version-in-progress.

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RE: Small setup.exe suggestion

[Parker, Ron]

> If you have a good idea try making the change yourself and submitting
> a patch.  That is the best way to make your good idea a reality.

Except in this case because DJ is overhauling setup and has, as I understand
it, requested that everyone hold off on patching setup.

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Re: Small setup.exe suggestion

[Chris Faylor]

My standard reply to this is:

Good ideas are cheap, contributions are gold.

If you have a good idea try making the change yourself and submitting
a patch.  That is the best way to make your good idea a reality.

cgf

On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 09:59:43AM +0200, Pierre Muller wrote:
>  Would it be possible to add some progress info on downloading ?
>
> Some files are very big and if connection is bad it ca take quite long to
>download it !
>A simple XX% at the end of
>downloading xxx;tar.gz 
>would be enough to let people know that the setup program is really working
>and
>that the connection is not dead.
>
>  A second suggestion, but that might be much more work would be an
>option that would create a listing of all available packages 
>with the status of the currently locally available.
>
>  This would for instance inform you that there is a newer bash version
>if you type "setup -l" (or any other option if this onee is already used.
>  
>  Other than that I find this program really good,
>its so simple to upgrade a package.
>
> Thanks for CygWin.
>
>
>Pierre Muller
>Institut Charles Sadron
>6,rue Boussingault
>F 67083 STRASBOURG CEDEX (France)
> mailto:muller@ics.u-strasbg.fr
>Phone : (33)-3-88-41-40-07  Fax : (33)-3-88-41-40-99

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Small setup.exe suggestion

[Pierre Muller]

  Would it be possible to add some progress info on downloading ?

 Some files are very big and if connection is bad it ca take quite long to
download it !
A simple XX% at the end of
downloading xxx;tar.gz 
would be enough to let people know that the setup program is really working
and
that the connection is not dead.

  A second suggestion, but that might be much more work would be an
option that would create a listing of all available packages 
with the status of the currently locally available.

  This would for instance inform you that there is a newer bash version
if you type "setup -l" (or any other option if this onee is already used.
  
  Other than that I find this program really good,
its so simple to upgrade a package.

 Thanks for CygWin.


Pierre Muller
Institut Charles Sadron
6,rue Boussingault
F 67083 STRASBOURG CEDEX (France)
mailto:muller@ics.u-strasbg.fr
Phone : (33)-3-88-41-40-07  Fax : (33)-3-88-41-40-99

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