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 It may be out of date 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... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA