On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Max Bowsher wrote:
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:Hi,
The setup version currently on the Cygwin web site exhibits the following
behavior: in "Keep" mode, it was impossible to select the new version of
the Cygwin package for the upgrade.
I'm somehow not surprised. Those horribly twiddly-cycle controls in setup are distressingly buggy. I've been speculating on how to change them into drop-down lists.
Max.
Frankly, I don't mind the twiddly-cycle controls, and this has little to do with intuitiveness. The way I see it, there are two parts of setup involved in this: the logic that lists the available versions (independent of the GUI, mostly), and the actual control that cycles through those versions. Yes, with drop-down boxes one will see the whole list of available choices at once, but if the logic is unchanged, the drop-down list will also contain the wrong set of items.
Indeed - I was mixing issues. The problem is that at the moment, setup does *not* generate a list of options - it implies the next option based on the current option - somewhat imperfectly, as you have discovered. Actually having a full list available would make the "what is next" logic rather simpler - and so less susceptible to bugs.
Max.
