Re: setup release candidate - please test

[Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>]

On 08/05/2017 19:26, Peter A. Castro wrote:
> On Mon, 8 May 2017, Jon Turney wrote:
[...]
>>
>> - Add --allow-unsupported-windows option
>> Don't check the windows version.
>
> Huzzah!!  Thanks for this!!

No problem.

>> The Cygwin mirror list is not read, so a URL (e.g. a Cygwin time
>> machine circa) should be given with --site or via the GUI.
>>
>> - Remove support for some long-obsolete setup.ini syntax (omitted
>> version:, omitted size and checksum, various undocumented tokens)
>
> Can you tell me what Setup will do if it encounters one of these
> "obsolete" setup.ini?  Throw an error?  Ignore the omission (how?)?
> Ignore the entire package entry??  Allow the user to continue anyway?

I'm afraid I'd have to test it to be sure, but I think that setup will 
report a syntax error and attempt to continue processing the setup.ini file.

I suspect the package will not be in very useful state lacking version 
or archive information.

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