On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Dave Korn <dave.korn.cyg...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 05/04/2010 15:40, wefwef wefwef wrote: > >> Do you think it should pay attention to the existing installation when >> it is downloading to an entirely different directory to create an >> entirely separate installation? > > That isn't how local package cache dirs work. The purpose of setup.exe is > to install and subsequently update your installation. The package cache dir > is just a cache dir, it does not determine which installation you are > referring to and changing the package cache dir does not mean that you are > trying to create a new installation. It just means that you are trying to > create a new package cache dir to work with your existing installation.
I understand that it's behaviour is by design, I'm just saying that the design is sub optimal. > >> The cygwin setup program has some obvious gui design flaws - a two >> year old can see that. It is a disaster from a usability point of >> view. > > Abusive name-calling is not a bug report. You're just in a bad mood and > taking it out on the mailing list. Refer to my earlier mail for the full details of what's wrong with the gui. To accuse me of being in a bad mood because I point out something that is blatant and obvious is ridiculous. > >> I found it anything but deterministic, producing different results >> almost every time I ran it. > > In between every time you ran it, you changed things. Of course it > responded differently. You never actually did the exact same thing twice. > >> That means the it's either got bugs, or >> it's so badly designed that mistakes are almost inevitable, either way >> it's a fault with the installer. > > No, the fault is with you for making guesses at what it does and blaming > everyone else when you turn out to be wrong. Seriously, your assumption that > changing the local package dir is something you do in order to "create an > entirely separate installation" is a fiction, entirely ungrounded in anything > the documentation claims, and it is the root fallacy that is the cause of the > disconnect between your expectations and reality. That wasn't my main problem, I just pointed it out as a rather undesirable flaw in the installer. I mean, it's a function of the installer to be able to download a set of packages, but for that to actually work properly, you have to rename or remove your existing installation. Seems a bit slapdash to me. Chris -- 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
