Dave Hooper wrote: > The major spot I've noticed with slowness is when if you click on the > text "Default" in the packages list (initial view, so whatever that > is, Curr/All I guess), and it takes a million years (without an > hourglass) to change to "Install"
Yes. If only I can find a sufficiently contiguous block of free time... > Oh, something somewhere also leaks memory like a seive. I haven't encountered this. Maybe you would like to try the snapshot at http://cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/ ? >> Isn't that kinda up to the user. When you finish downloading new >> packages you kill your internet connection as cygwin setup won't >> need it. > > I totally disagree. Cygwin setup has two phases, download and > install. Install takes almost as long as download on many machines! > So in an ideal world Cygwin would automatically hang up if it had > initially autodialled the internet connection (maybe it does this, > I'm not on dial up), or pop up a message box saying "Finished > downloading, click OK to install" or similar. Autodialling isn't something that (most) programs do. Windows does it for them. So setup doesn't know if a connection was made on it's account or not. Isn't the change from downloading to installing info enough? > Is the source for setup.exe in cvs anyway? Of course it is. http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html Max. -- 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/
