From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31630 invoked by alias); 25 Oct 2002 16:42:54 -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 31589 invoked from network); 25 Oct 2002 16:42:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO slinky.cs.nyu.edu) (128.122.20.14) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 25 Oct 2002 16:42:53 -0000 Received: from localhost (pechtcha@localhost) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g9PGgqQ26422; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:42:52 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 11:19:00 -0000 From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: lhall@rfk.com cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Setup.exe and accessability In-Reply-To: <199120-220021052516394248@M2W076.mail2web.com> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2002-10/txt/msg01644.txt.bz2 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. 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 -- 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 -- 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/