Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: >Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>By the way, are you using the latest setup.exe from Cygwin? Setup.exe >>should never suggest to downgrade, I think. >> > >Found the answer in the README that comes with setup: it's still a >TODO item: > > TODO > [..] > * Don't downgrade if the curr version is <= installed? > >Btw, this should apply to test too, I think. > I agree. It's annoying at best to install a group of test packages and then, the next time I run setup, if I don't watch carefully they would revert to the current.
An obvious problem is having everyone use a revision-level scheme that tests correctly. I see at least two very different schemes here. Also, setup would need to parse, e.g. 1.9-3 so that it's less than 1.10-1. I'll have to do a more thorough survey to see if a simple minded algorithm would catch all the cases. > > >Jan. > -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate "By God's Grace I am a Christian man, by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim; R. M. French, tr. Life is too short to tolerate crappy software. . -- 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/
