From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: setup 2.887 release candidate - please test
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 12:42:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ba4ede99-daf0-93e1-8291-b0b1f4f1753c@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2c26a09b-d3d4-7091-0962-4c496dfa86e6@dronecode.org.uk>
On 07/02/2018 11:51, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 07/02/2018 11:38, David Balažic wrote:
>> On 7 February 2018 at 01:49, Steven Penny wrote:
>>> On Tue, 6 Feb 2018 15:04:49, Jon Turney wrote:
>>> - 'Current' is replaced by 'Best' (which is slightly different in ways
>>>> it's difficult to summarize briefly) and 'Sync' (which exposes the
>>>> --force-current (distupgrade) option through the UI).
>>>
>>> i get the desire for one word labels - but im not sure how good
>>> "sync" is. its not clear in the GUI what it does, and frankly, even
>>> reading your description doesnt clear up for me what it does. i
>>> guess i would need to run "--help" and see what "--force-current"
>>> does to figure it out. that just seems like more work than it
>>> should be.
>>>
>>> This could be improved by having a tooltip on the GUI item,
>>> explaining in a sentence or two, what it does.
>
> There already is a tooltip:
>
> "Sets all packages to the version available from the package
> respository, downgrading if necessary."
For the record, the changes in 2.888 are to fix a typo in this tooltip,
and to avoid a crash when installing a source package.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-20 12:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-06 15:05 Jon Turney
2018-02-07 0:49 ` Steven Penny
2018-02-07 11:38 ` David Balažic
2018-02-07 11:51 ` Jon Turney
2018-02-20 12:42 ` Jon Turney [this message]
2018-02-08 1:16 ` Steven Penny
2018-02-08 6:45 ` Marco Atzeri
2018-02-08 14:01 ` Eric Blake
2018-02-08 15:17 ` Marco Atzeri
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