Corinna wrote (on a different Cygwin mailing list, which I am not supposed to read):
Title: Setup patch to keep test version if test version installed > Hi guys, > > I need a bit of feedback. > > One detail bugging me (and probably others as well) in Setup is this. > If I chose to install a test version of a package, and then start Setup > again, Setup will default to the current version of the package again. > If I'm just a bit careless, I'll overwrite my test version with the curr > version of this package. And another Setup run will be required to fix > that ... Yes, yes, yes, bugging me too. > Then she wrote (in a follow-up message): > I checked in code which fixes this issue, which simplifies the package > choosing algorithm when clicking on the package line, and which > implements the default package in a way which never "downgrades" a > package without the user's explicit consent by choosing the lower > package version manually. This is much more in line with the update > mechanism in Linux package managers. > > I uploaded test builds of this setup to cygwin.com: > > https://cygwin.com/setup-test-x86.exe > https://cygwin.com/setup-test-x86_64.exe > > Please give it a try. Which I did. Satisfied user here. An user which never uses the keep/current/experimental radio buttons, though (which I consider superfluous). Thank you. Henri -- 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
