On Nov 21 14:28, Jon TURNEY wrote: > On 21/11/2011 09:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > most of the changes and fixes in the new setup.exe release from this > > weekend are yours per the ChangeLog. I don't know exactly what to write > > in an announcement. Here's what I have so far. Can you please have a > > look and revise it? > > Sure, some suggestions interleaved > > > - Now that mintty has become part of the default installation, setup will > > create desktop and start menu shortcuts called "Cygwin Terminal", which > > point to mintty, starting your default shell as noted in /etc/passwd. > > > > - The desktop and start menu shortcuts use new icons. > > > > - Remove "Prev" button from Chooser page. The behaviour was confusing > > and unnecessary. > > > > - In unattanded mode, if packages were selected on command line, > > install only these, not their dependencies. > > > > --- Is that correct? Or are the dependencies installed as well, > > but not unrelated packages? > > The change I made is supposed to prevent unrelated, already installed packages > from getting updated. So perhaps > > "In unattended mode, if packages were selected on command line, > install only those, don't also upgrade all installed packages" > > > - Improve progress bar display. > > "Various improvements so progress bar shows progress during operations which > may take a long time with a large number of packages selected." > > > - Fix behaviour when reading broken tar archives. > > "Fix hang when reading broken or pbzip2 compressed tar archives" > > > - Improve error messages related to reading and writing files. > > Also a few earlier changes you didn't mention: > > (2.739) > - Canonicalize mirror URLs so they always end with a '/' > > (2.740) > - Fix a bug which would lead to setup getting stuck on the dependency > checking progress page in unattended mode when a dependency of an already > installed package was not installed somehow. > > (2.741) > Correct the description of the -K option in help text
Thanks! Announcement follows shortly. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
