From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11713 invoked by alias); 25 Oct 2002 19:29:58 -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 11680 invoked from network); 25 Oct 2002 19:29:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO relay1.softcomca.com) (168.144.1.67) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 25 Oct 2002 19:29:57 -0000 Received: from M2W069.mail2web.com ([168.144.108.69]) by relay1.softcomca.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Fri, 25 Oct 2002 15:29:56 -0400 Message-ID: <63340-2200210525192956744@M2W069.mail2web.com> X-Priority: 3 Reply-To: lhall@rfk.com X-Originating-IP: 209.113.174.244 From: "lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Setup.exe and accessability Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 15:05:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Oct 2002 19:29:56.0590 (UTC) FILETIME=[E681D8E0:01C27C5C] X-SW-Source: 2002-10/txt/msg01661.txt.bz2 No Igor I understood your intent. I was just chose your "introduction" of the topic to restate a general policy of the list, in case anyone felt there had been any change. Sorry for "picking on you". People should feel free to post to this list and have only 1 out of every 2= =20 posts contain a patch. ;-) ;-) ;-) Larry Original Message: ----------------- From: Igor Pechtchanski pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:42:52 -0400 (EDT) To: lhall@rfk.com, cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Setup.exe and accessability Hmm, did I sound that serious? :-D Igor On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com wrote: > Sorry Igor. One must always submit a patch in order to post to > this email list. Please reformulate all your email (retroactively) > to be posts in the form of a patch. Chris, is there any way to > block posts to this list that aren't patches? Oops! My email isn't > a patch either! ;-) ;-) ;-) > > Seriously, no one expects all comments, suggestions, or requests to come > with patches (at least not on this list ;-) ) I hope no one really has > that impression. Generally, I think responses that suggest submitting a > patch are meant to indicate to the original poster that the request or > comment would see more immediate fruition if a patch is included.=20 Sometimes > folks expect there's an idle group of developers just hanging around waiting > to jump on the next request from the list. Even if the current audience > doesn't have that perception, making a clear statement that someone who may > later search the archives can find is often helpful. So please don't be > offended by any response suggesting a patch... unless it makes you want to > submit one! ;-) > > Larry > > Original Message: > ----------------- > From: Igor Pechtchanski pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu > Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:03:31 -0400 (EDT) > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Setup.exe and accessability > > > On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 02:05:14PM +0200, Lars Bj?rndal wrote: > > >As far I can see, you can not select individual packages within > > >setup.exe without using the mouse. I'm blind, and therefore I can not > > >install cygwin without assistance from a sighted person. Is it > > >possible that this will be changed in the next version? Or is there a > > >posibility that I have not seen? > > > > The only thing that I can think of that could possibly be of use is > > the oft-mentioned command line options for setup.exe. Various people > > have mentioned that they were going to work on this but I've never > > seen anyone (besides Robert of course) follow through on fully realizing > > this to the point where you can install packages from the command line. > > Adding keyboard shortcuts to the package selection screen (i.e., bing > to the Action column and the checkboxes) would do it as well, I suppose. > "Did I phrase that sufficiently neutrally to avoid being asked to submit a > patch?" (C) R. Schulz. > Igor --=20 http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Water molecules expand as they grow warmer" (C) Popular Science, Oct'02, p.51 -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . -- 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/