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Re: Multiple pending setup patches


On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 09:19:01AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
>> On Oct 14 03:30, Brian Dessent wrote:
>> > Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >
>> > > > Is there any way that my proposal of adding a check to see if the currently
>> > > > selected mirror is in the list of mirrors and issuing a pop-up warning if
>> > > > not, could be implemented?
>> > > >
>> > > > I suppose that this would have to be defeatable for people who want to
>> > > > use setup.exe for in-house mirrors but I'm not too worried about that.
>> > >
>> > > Ouch, I am.  It should be possible to switch this off, or setup should
>> > > differ between a mirror from the list, which just isn't available right
>> > > now, and a mirror which has been added manually.
>> >
>> > What I had in mind was something like this:
>> >
>> > -------------------------------------------------------------
>> > Warning: The mirror you have selected is not on the list
>> >          of official Cygwin mirrors.  It may be out of date
>> >          or missing some packages.  If you experience
>> >          installation problems consider trying an official
>> >          mirror.
>> >
>> >          [X]   Don't show this again
>> >
>> >                         [ OK ]
>> > -------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> That's it.
>
>FWIW, I was thinking more of a command-line option to turn it off, rather
>than a user-changeable setting...

Maybe both would be needed.  I like the "Don't show this again" part of the
option.

IMO, this "out of date mirror" problem is probably percolating to the top of
the apparent bugs that people see in setup.exe.

cgf


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