* setup.exe to have Install button @ 2016-09-08 12:59 Nellis, Kenneth 2016-09-08 14:47 ` Brian Inglis 2016-09-09 0:44 ` Shaddy Baddah 0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Nellis, Kenneth @ 2016-09-08 12:59 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin Just in case anyone's collecting change requests against Setup.exe, here's a simple one that I'd like to see: All screens until the final screen display a "Next>" button. Typically, after launching, I just click this button until I get to the list of packages to review, but this screen also has a "Next>" button. Clicking it installs the packages. My request is for the button on this screen to be changed to "Install", to better convey to the user that we are have completed the question-answer screens and are at the final screen before the actual installation. --Ken Nellis -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: setup.exe to have Install button 2016-09-08 12:59 setup.exe to have Install button Nellis, Kenneth @ 2016-09-08 14:47 ` Brian Inglis 2016-09-08 16:38 ` Brian Inglis 2016-09-09 0:44 ` Shaddy Baddah 1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Brian Inglis @ 2016-09-08 14:47 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin On 2016-09-08 06:59, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > Just in case anyone's collecting change requests > against Setup.exe, here's a simple one that I'd > like to see: > > All screens until the final screen display a "Next>" > button. Typically, after launching, I just click > this button until I get to the list of packages to > review, but this screen also has a "Next>" button. > Clicking it installs the packages. > > My request is for the button on this screen to be > changed to "Install", to better convey to the user > that we are have completed the question-answer > screens and are at the final screen before the > actual installation. I would request just a little more for the Install view: after making selections and clicking Next button, change to Pending view with all selected packages displayed. Could this also show required new or upgraded dependent packages? -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: setup.exe to have Install button 2016-09-08 14:47 ` Brian Inglis @ 2016-09-08 16:38 ` Brian Inglis 0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Brian Inglis @ 2016-09-08 16:38 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin On 2016-09-08 08:47, Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2016-09-08 06:59, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: >> Just in case anyone's collecting change requests >> against Setup.exe, here's a simple one that I'd >> like to see: >> >> All screens until the final screen display a "Next>" >> button. Typically, after launching, I just click >> this button until I get to the list of packages to >> review, but this screen also has a "Next>" button. >> Clicking it installs the packages. >> >> My request is for the button on this screen to be >> changed to "Install", to better convey to the user >> that we are have completed the question-answer >> screens and are at the final screen before the >> actual installation. > > I would request just a little more for the Install view: > after making selections and clicking Next button, > change to Pending view with all selected packages displayed. > > Could this also show required new or upgraded dependent packages? Also just checking setup.log, I noticed it had ballooned to 55MB: I found that recent setup_x86_64 releases appear to be spinning on file replacement, trying thousands of times a minute to replace a file before giving up! Could this be replaced by exponential backoff sleeps of say 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32s, before either: asking the user whether to continue, or setting up reboot replacement of the file, and warning the user. If the Search Indexer is examining a file, or it is in use in a Scheduled Task, giving the other task quiet time to finish seems more likely to eliminate contention than loading the system with failed accesses. Having removed the hundreds of thousands of repeated lines: "io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/usr/bin/...) failed 13 Permission denied Failed to open cygfile:///usr/bin/... for writing. Not replacing in-use file cygfile:///usr/bin/..." setup.log is back to a reasonable 1.5MB since I first installed cygwin643 years ago. Checking cygwin32 setup.log I am glad to see it has only reached a meagre .5MB since its last reinstall 4 years ago, with annual updates or a bit more frequent when building or checking cygports. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: setup.exe to have Install button 2016-09-08 12:59 setup.exe to have Install button Nellis, Kenneth 2016-09-08 14:47 ` Brian Inglis @ 2016-09-09 0:44 ` Shaddy Baddah 1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Shaddy Baddah @ 2016-09-09 0:44 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin Hi, On 08/09/16 22:59, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > Just in case anyone's collecting change requests > against Setup.exe, here's a simple one that I'd > like to see: > > All screens until the final screen display a "Next>" > button. Typically, after launching, I just click > this button until I get to the list of packages to > review, but this screen also has a "Next>" button. > Clicking it installs the packages. > > My request is for the button on this screen to be > changed to "Install", to better convey to the user > that we are have completed the question-answer > screens and are at the final screen before the > actual installation. I'm not dismissing the suggestion, but don't forget that you can select at the start to "Download Without Installing". In that case, "Install" would be misleading. I guess your suggestion is still valid if it toggles from "Install" between "Download" as appropriate. -- Regards, Shaddy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
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