Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-09 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 02:20:18PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: By the way, I don't like that setup maximizes the window when on the package selection step. I haven't seen it, but it certainly sounds wrong for a "wizard"-style window to change its size whe

Re: base-files (was: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47)

2009-05-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 8 10:53, John Morrison wrote: > On Fri, May 8, 2009 10:32 am, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> Yes, that was one of the reasons I changed it. The old way to eval the > >> user's HOME dir could result in the skel files not being created because > >> the HOME directory already existed. The non-

Re: base-files (was: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47)

2009-05-08 Thread John Morrison
On Fri, May 8, 2009 10:32 am, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Hi John, > > On May 6 16:33, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On May 6 14:54, John Morrison wrote: >> > On Wed, May 6, 2009 2:25 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> > > I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-47. >> > > >> > > What's new i

Re: base-files (was: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47)

2009-05-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi John, On May 6 16:33, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On May 6 14:54, John Morrison wrote: > > On Wed, May 6, 2009 2:25 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-47. > > > > > > What's new in contrast to 1.7.0-46 > > > ===

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-07 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 03:32:27PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >> Andy Koppe wrote: By the way, I don't like that setup maximizes the window when on the package selection step. >>> I haven't seen it, but it certainly sounds wrong for a "wizard"-style >>> wind

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 01:51:57PM -0700, Karl M wrote: >I find it useful as well...it was just a little startling the first time >it expanded to full screen. Has anyone noticed that setup.exe now prints to the screen as well as displaying dialog boxes? So, in theory you can do this: setup --hel

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-07 Thread Karl M
Hi All... > > On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 02:20:18PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: By the way, I don't like that setup maximizes the window when on the package selection step. >>> >>> I haven't seen it, but it certainly sounds wrong for a "wizard"-style >>> window to change its size

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 02:20:18PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: >> > By the way, I don't like that setup maximizes the window when on the >> > package >> > selection step. >> >> I haven't seen it, but it certainly sounds wrong for a "wizard"-style >> window to change its size when you press the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-07 Thread Andrew Schulman
> > By the way, I don't like that setup maximizes the window when on the package > > selection step. > > I haven't seen it, but it certainly sounds wrong for a "wizard"-style > window to change its size when you press the Next button. Hm, I always think it's kind of handy. Also that it changes b

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 03:32:27PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >Andy Koppe wrote: >>> By the way, I don't like that setup maximizes the window when on the package >>> selection step. >> >> I haven't seen it, but it certainly sounds wrong for a "wizard"-style >> window to change its size when you press

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-07 Thread Dave Korn
Andy Koppe wrote: >> By the way, I don't like that setup maximizes the window when on the package >> selection step. > > I haven't seen it, but it certainly sounds wrong for a "wizard"-style > window to change its size when you press the Next button. This is my other nomination for the user int

Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 6 16:58, Warren Young wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> This new installer adds the capability to search for package names in a >> search field, > > Someone's getting a gold star for this, I hope? Me too, but our gold star distributing guy somehow disappeared from the radar end of 2008,

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 7 07:26, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > > This -47 release is accompanied by a new setup-1.7.exe installer, > > version number is 2.617. > > I get consistent crashes sometimes after install (and before running > postinstall > scripts?). Exception code

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-07 Thread Andy Koppe
> By the way, I don't like that setup maximizes the window when on the package > selection step. I haven't seen it, but it certainly sounds wrong for a "wizard"-style window to change its size when you press the Next button. > An option somewhere to disable it would be nice. :) No, it wouldn't.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-07 Thread Magnus Holmgren
Matthias Andree gmx.de> writes: > > By the way, I don't like that setup maximizes the window when on the > > package > > selection step. An option somewhere to disable it would be nice. :) > > But that's actually a useful feature. The default size used to be way too > small. It's just that

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-07 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 07.05.2009, 09:26 Uhr, schrieb Magnus Holmgren : By the way, I don't like that setup maximizes the window when on the package selection step. An option somewhere to disable it would be nice. :) But that's actually a useful feature. The default size used to be way too small. -- Matthia

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-07 Thread Magnus Holmgren
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > This -47 release is accompanied by a new setup-1.7.exe installer, > version number is 2.617. I get consistent crashes sometimes after install (and before running postinstall scripts?). Exception code is 0xc0fd (stack overflow? Fault offset is 0x000430ac

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-06 Thread Stephan Mueller
Dave Korn wrote: " Ken Brown wrote: " > On 5/6/2009 9:25 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: " >> This -47 release is accompanied by a new setup-1.7.exe installer, " >> version number is 2.617. " >> " >> This new installer adds the capability to search for package names in a " >> search field, top-left in

Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-06 Thread Warren Young
Corinna Vinschen wrote: This new installer adds the capability to search for package names in a search field, Someone's getting a gold star for this, I hope? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-06 Thread Dave Korn
Thrall, Bryan wrote: > Sounds good to me. BTW, thanks to everyone who worked on the search > feature, it is very nice :) Yes, much kudos (and a gold star please?) are due to Andrew Punch for giving us this long-missed feature. > My only (minor) complaint is it lacks a button to clear its conten

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-06 Thread Thrall, Bryan
Dave Korn wrote on Wednesday, May 06, 2009 10:33 AM: > Ken Brown wrote: >> On 5/6/2009 9:25 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> This -47 release is accompanied by a new setup-1.7.exe installer, version >>> number is 2.617. >>> >>> This new installer adds the capability to search for package names in

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-06 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/6/2009 11:33 AM, Dave Korn wrote: Maybe it would suffice if we put some kind of visual indication in the chooser that there were excluded packages? Say we added a dummy entry at the end of the list that couldn't be clicked on and that just said [ ... more packages filtered out by sea

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-06 Thread Dave Korn
Ken Brown wrote: > On 5/6/2009 9:25 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> This -47 release is accompanied by a new setup-1.7.exe installer, >> version number is 2.617. >> >> This new installer adds the capability to search for package names in a >> search field, top-left in the package selection window. >

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-06 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/6/2009 9:25 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: This -47 release is accompanied by a new setup-1.7.exe installer, version number is 2.617. This new installer adds the capability to search for package names in a search field, top-left in the package selection window. There's one potential pitfall

Re: base-files (was: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47)

2009-05-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 6 14:54, John Morrison wrote: > On Wed, May 6, 2009 2:25 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-47. > > > > What's new in contrast to 1.7.0-46 > > === > > > > - Never use HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH to construct a default

base-files (was: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47)

2009-05-06 Thread John Morrison
On Wed, May 6, 2009 2:25 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-47. > > What's new in contrast to 1.7.0-46 > === > > - Never use HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH to construct a default home directory for > the current user. The mechan

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi folks, I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-47. === IMPORTANT NOTE This -47 release is accompanied by a new setup-1.7.exe installer, version number is 2.617. This new installer adds t