From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 125604 invoked by alias); 20 Feb 2018 12:42:27 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 125595 invoked by uid 89); 20 Feb 2018 12:42:26 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-languages-length:1191, Best, Hx-spam-relays-external:ESMTPA, HContent-Transfer-Encoding:8bit X-HELO: out1-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out1-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.25) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 20 Feb 2018 12:42:25 +0000 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 190A92191C for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2018 07:42:24 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 20 Feb 2018 07:42:24 -0500 X-ME-Sender: Received: from [192.168.1.102] (host86-179-112-159.range86-179.btcentralplus.com [86.179.112.159]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id AFEAE245F1 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2018 07:42:23 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: setup 2.887 release candidate - please test From: Jon Turney To: The Cygwin Mailing List References: <535988c5-b45f-1326-7fad-fba453f1ef8b@dronecode.org.uk> <5a7a4d32.c7149d0a.b3ec.0ffa@mx.google.com> <2c26a09b-d3d4-7091-0962-4c496dfa86e6@dronecode.org.uk> Message-ID: Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 12:42:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2c26a09b-d3d4-7091-0962-4c496dfa86e6@dronecode.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SW-Source: 2018-02/txt/msg00222.txt.bz2 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. -- 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