Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-09 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 02:20:18PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: By the way, I don't like that setup maximizes the window when on the package selection step. I haven't seen it, but it certainly sounds wrong for a wizard-style window to change its size when

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-07 Thread Magnus Holmgren
Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes: This -47 release is accompanied by a new setup-1.7.exe installer, version number is 2.617. I get consistent crashes sometimes after install (and before running postinstall scripts?). Exception code is 0xc0fd (stack overflow? Fault

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-07 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 07.05.2009, 09:26 Uhr, schrieb Magnus Holmgren magnus...@gmail.com: By the way, I don't like that setup maximizes the window when on the package selection step. An option somewhere to disable it would be nice. :) But that's actually a useful feature. The default size used to be way too

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-07 Thread Magnus Holmgren
Matthias Andree matthias.andree at gmx.de writes: By the way, I don't like that setup maximizes the window when on the package selection step. An option somewhere to disable it would be nice. :) But that's actually a useful feature. The default size used to be way too small. It's

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-07 Thread Andy Koppe
By the way, I don't like that setup maximizes the window when on the package selection step. I haven't seen it, but it certainly sounds wrong for a wizard-style window to change its size when you press the Next button. An option somewhere to disable it would be nice. :) No, it wouldn't. The

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 7 07:26, Magnus Holmgren wrote: Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes: This -47 release is accompanied by a new setup-1.7.exe installer, version number is 2.617. I get consistent crashes sometimes after install (and before running postinstall scripts?).

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-07 Thread Dave Korn
Andy Koppe wrote: By the way, I don't like that setup maximizes the window when on the package selection step. I haven't seen it, but it certainly sounds wrong for a wizard-style window to change its size when you press the Next button. This is my other nomination for the user interface

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 03:32:27PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: Andy Koppe wrote: By the way, I don't like that setup maximizes the window when on the package selection step. I haven't seen it, but it certainly sounds wrong for a wizard-style window to change its size when you press the Next

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-07 Thread Andrew Schulman
By the way, I don't like that setup maximizes the window when on the package selection step. I haven't seen it, but it certainly sounds wrong for a wizard-style window to change its size when you press the Next button. Hm, I always think it's kind of handy. Also that it changes back

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 02:20:18PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: By the way, I don't like that setup maximizes the window when on the package selection step. I haven't seen it, but it certainly sounds wrong for a wizard-style window to change its size when you press the Next button.

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-07 Thread Karl M
Hi All... On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 02:20:18PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: By the way, I don't like that setup maximizes the window when on the package selection step. I haven't seen it, but it certainly sounds wrong for a wizard-style window to change its size when you press the Next

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 01:51:57PM -0700, Karl M wrote: I find it useful as well...it was just a little startling the first time it expanded to full screen. Has anyone noticed that setup.exe now prints to the screen as well as displaying dialog boxes? So, in theory you can do this: setup --help

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-07 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 03:32:27PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: Andy Koppe wrote: By the way, I don't like that setup maximizes the window when on the package selection step. I haven't seen it, but it certainly sounds wrong for a wizard-style window to change its size

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi folks, I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-47. === IMPORTANT NOTE This -47 release is accompanied by a new setup-1.7.exe installer, version number is 2.617. This new installer adds

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-06 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/6/2009 9:25 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: This -47 release is accompanied by a new setup-1.7.exe installer, version number is 2.617. This new installer adds the capability to search for package names in a search field, top-left in the package selection window. There's one potential pitfall

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-06 Thread Dave Korn
Ken Brown wrote: On 5/6/2009 9:25 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: This -47 release is accompanied by a new setup-1.7.exe installer, version number is 2.617. This new installer adds the capability to search for package names in a search field, top-left in the package selection window. There's

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-06 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/6/2009 11:33 AM, Dave Korn wrote: Maybe it would suffice if we put some kind of visual indication in the chooser that there were excluded packages? Say we added a dummy entry at the end of the list that couldn't be clicked on and that just said [ ... more packages filtered out by

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-06 Thread Thrall, Bryan
Dave Korn wrote on Wednesday, May 06, 2009 10:33 AM: Ken Brown wrote: On 5/6/2009 9:25 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: This -47 release is accompanied by a new setup-1.7.exe installer, version number is 2.617. This new installer adds the capability to search for package names in a search

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-06 Thread Dave Korn
Thrall, Bryan wrote: Sounds good to me. BTW, thanks to everyone who worked on the search feature, it is very nice :) Yes, much kudos (and a gold star please?) are due to Andrew Punch for giving us this long-missed feature. My only (minor) complaint is it lacks a button to clear its

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-06 Thread Stephan Mueller
Dave Korn wrote: Ken Brown wrote: On 5/6/2009 9:25 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: This -47 release is accompanied by a new setup-1.7.exe installer, version number is 2.617. This new installer adds the capability to search for package names in a search field, top-left in the package