Re: New setup pre-release - feedback needed

["Peter A. Castro" <doctor@fruitbat.org>]

On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, Robert Collins wrote:

> We're coming up on a new release of setup.exe, with a number of user
> interface enhancements to make it more obvious what setup is doing when it
> 'pauses'.

While I do like the status of knowing just what setup is scanning as part
of the package loading process, it now takes much, much longer to load
from an "Install from Local Directory" scenario :-) (up from 5 seconds to
about 1 minute, 45 seconds).  It's a kind of a rare scenario (I'm
probably one of the few who keeps a full downloaded image of all of
cygwin (kinda like a mirror site)), and it's not like I run setup more
than once every few days, so it's an adequate trade-off for more status
on the package load. 

> It *should* be bug free, although there may be a minor bug with
> autodetection of upgrades (we have one report, but no debugging info).

I did some test installs and re/de-installs and it appears to work well.
The only thing I did notice was that during the actual package
installation part, the Progress bar is showing "full" when it's installed
only about 3/4ths of the files from the package.  I noticed this more
with source packages than binaries, but did see it a few times with some
binary-only package installs.  It's really just a cosmetic thing and
didn't seem to effect the actual installation.  I view it as a reversal
of the old '98% finished' phenomenon :-)

> The pre-release snapshot can be found at
> http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-2.259.2.4.exe.
> 
> As usual, the quality of this release will depend on feedback from you, the
> users. Please give the new version a go, and if you have *any* trouble, send
> me the setup.log and setup.log.full from your run of setup.exe.

I haven't tried a full reload of cygwin (might try that later), but doing
a few minor updates and a few re/de-installs did not turn up any
problems.  Looking good!

> Cheers,
> Rob

-- 
Peter A. Castro <doctor@fruitbat.org> or <Peter.Castro@oracle.com>
	"Cats are just autistic Dogs" -- Dr. Tony Attwood


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