Hi,
It just occured to me what would be an IMHO really cool extension to setup.exe. What if we could put some simple text file on cygwin.com called, say, setup.rel, and setup.exe would try to fetch this file and, before presenting the chooser dialog, open another dialog with a scrollable text field containing the text from this release message file? Then setup.exe would store a hash of the text. Later invocations of setup would only show the file content if the hash value of the text differs from the stored hash value, which obviously means the file has changed. This would allow us to generate arbitrary release messages for important stuff. Just to give people an idea that there's some major change, for instance, the jump from Cygwin 1.5.25 to 1.7.1 Or consider we have to rework some functionality in Cygwin 1.7 which turns out to require some user intervention, for instance a configuration change. This would not only give us a chance to deliver release messages, it would also give people a chance to stop if they don't feel comfortable with the described changes. Well, if they read the message at all, that is. What do others think of that idea? And who volunteers to implement it? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
