Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > My workaround for setup.exe's behaviour is: > build & install perl-5.8 yourself from source. > How about simply explaining that setups default behavior (for the less adventurous and experienced) has always been to keep your packages at Current (the recommended version). Therefore in an attempt to accomplish this it will try to downgrade to 5.6 which is current. If you wish to stay at the test version simply change the status to keep.
Granted it would be nice if I had previously elected to install a test version that setup accept this decision and leave that version installed, but until the bug is fixed and to keep folks from attempting to circumvent Setup and creating more issues - the above might be a better response that circumventing setup or building their own. bk -- 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/
