Setup.exe

["Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>]

    Hi Max, Brian, et al.  (Hi Al!)

  Is the new version of setup coming from HEAD or from the old release
branch?  I notice that most of the recent changes appear to be on mainline,
but don't know if they're on the branch too.  As a side issue, is it really
worth releasing from branches for this application?  It's not like we want
to carry on maintaining old versions for years the way we do with gcc or
binutils, so I can't see a great deal of value in it myself, but other
people's M may of course V.

  The reason I ask is because, at least on mainline, I just noticed that the
V scrollbar on the chooser page doesn't get resized if you resize the
window.  (It does if you select any of the radio buttons or expand/contract
a tree entry or otherwise provoke a full redraw).

  Oh, and one other little thing: my expectations were lightly confounded
when I ticked the box saying "Hide obsolete and administrative packages",
and the "Admin" category remained stubbornly visible at the top of the
chooser.  Perhaps there's a better word we could use than "administrative"?
"Infrastructure", perhaps?

  <columbo> Oh, there was _just_ _one_ _more_ thing...... </columbo>
Selecting (or unselecting) the "Hide obsolete" tickbox resets all your
selections in the chooser.  I take it this is an inadvertent side-effect
rather than a matter of necessity?



    cheers, 
      DaveK
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