----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 12:05:08PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 12:04 PM > >Subject: Re: has anyone tried latest setup.exe from cvs ? > > > > > >> On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 10:52:11AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > >> > > >> >----- Original Message ----- > >> >From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> >>i.e., that have no "version:" lines in them (what is such an entry > >> >>supposed to mean, or is this actually a upset bug?). The parser > >then > >> >>never creates a > >> > > >> >Chris, do you consider version: to be mandatory for setup.ini files? > >> > > >> >setup.html doesn't specify (AFAICT) whether version: is optional or > >> >mandatory. If the decision hasn't been made, I'd prefer mandatory. > >> > >>It's optional for setup.exe, certainly. There are a few packages for > >>which there is no version: info. I think I nuked one of them > >>yesterday, though. > > > >Ah. I'll make setup.exe robust again - at the moment it dies if there > >is no version: entry for a package in setup.ini. > > I could be mistaken about this. It's been a couple of months. I don't > recall ever seeing lines like This is an example that would kill setup.exe: @ ash sdesc: "A Bourne Shell (/bin/sh) workalike" category: Base Shells requires: cygwin install: latest/ash/ash-20011018-1.tar.bz2 33819 source: latest/ash/ash-20011018-1-src.tar.bz2 143186 Rob
