From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23183 invoked by alias); 18 Oct 2002 14:08:51 -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 23169 invoked from network); 18 Oct 2002 14:08:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO xchangeserver2.storigen.com) (65.193.106.66) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 18 Oct 2002 14:08:47 -0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Cygwin feature request - setup.exe release notes Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 07:21:00 -0000 Message-ID: <7BFCE5F1EF28D64198522688F5449D5AC1E30C@xchangeserver2.storigen.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Scott Prive" To: "Cygwin" X-SW-Source: 2002-10/txt/msg01103.txt.bz2 Feature request: For SOME packages, release Notes that can be pulled up fro= m the installer. Many people run Cygwin and are not members of this list. Ideally, people wo= uld read the mailing list before installing, and again before upgrading. This is not the reality and human nature is difficult to change.=20 So in the spirit of this, a "nice" feature would there were a pop-up warnin= g or note for "risky" upgrades, or first time installs. This would not need= to be done for most packages, just those that may change expected or assum= ed behavior. For example: I saw the post about the security defaults changing. If you're= on this list, you would know this, but otherwise you are in for a big surp= rise in "cvs file attributes", etc. There might be other examples but this = is what comes to me now. In short: if it's worth warning users on the list about, the software might= do the same. Is this a bad idea? (And no, I can't send patches for this :-) -Scott -- 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/