Pending packages status

2002-11-29 Thread Pavel Tsekov
1. xinetd version: 2.3.9-1 status : not reviewed notes : http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2002-11/msg00069.html http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2002-11/msg00249.html votes : ?! url: http://users.rcn.com/sokhapkin/release/xinetd/xinetd-2.3.9-1.tar.bz2

Re: [ITP] grace 5.1.10

2002-11-29 Thread Lapo Luchini
Hmm, maybe I should have done a bit more advertising. ;-) See http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/ for more infos on grace. Seems useful IMHO, I vote for it. (please notice that my personal tought about packages is not that they should be essential to cygwin but rather can be useful to have

RE: setup feature request

2002-11-29 Thread Kris Thielemans
I'm not promising anything, but there's a slim chance I'll have a patch ready in time for upcoming setup release at the weekend / early next week. It's already in place. Just click 'default' beside 'all' twice and you should get 'keep'. comments about that: - the setup version that

Re: [Patch] Keep Button

2002-11-29 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 09:28, Max Bowsher wrote: 1) The prev trust level hasn't been removed as a group decision. You need to keep that for now at least. I'm confident it will be shortly. Does that change my statement? 2) You are not checking requirements for packages, so if the user

Re: setup feature request

2002-11-29 Thread Max Bowsher
It's already in place. Just click 'default' beside 'all' twice and you should get 'keep'. Kris Thielemans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: comments about that: - the setup version that is currently on the cygwin home page does not have this feature: it cycles between default, install, reinstall

Re: Request approval to add stuff to .cvsignores

2002-11-29 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 09:22, Max Bowsher wrote: Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you mind if I add stuff to .cvsignore files? Do I need to ChangeLog that? I should probably say what I want to add: ? libgetopt++/Makefile.in ? libgetopt++/aclocal.m4 D

Re: Request approval to add stuff to .cvsignores

2002-11-29 Thread Max Bowsher
Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 09:22, Max Bowsher wrote: Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you mind if I add stuff to .cvsignore files? Do I need to ChangeLog that? I should probably say what I want to add: ? libgetopt++/Makefile.in ?

Re: Request approval to add stuff to .cvsignores

2002-11-29 Thread Earnie Boyd
Max Bowsher wrote: D zlib/autom4te.cache M zlib/configure These should be kept in CVS. zlib, like the setup root, is kept ready-to-go. You are correct. CVS won't actually ignore configure, even if it *is* in .cvsignore, because it is under version control. autom4te.cache isn't though, so

RE: setup feature request

2002-11-29 Thread Kris Thielemans
- what's the difference between 'default' and 'install'? ok, now I know there's no a difference for Base and Misc, but I still don't know what the difference is for the others ... (I guess I'm missing something obvious here) - it should be very easy to add 'remove' as well. This will

Re: setup feature request

2002-11-29 Thread Max Bowsher
Kris Thielemans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - what's the difference between 'default' and 'install'? ok, now I know there's no a difference for Base and Misc, but I still don't know what the difference is for the others ... (I guess I'm missing something obvious here) Yep. Default == Keep,

RE: setup feature request

2002-11-29 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 02:15, Kris Thielemans wrote: - what's the difference between 'default' and 'install'? ok, now I know there's no a difference for Base and Misc, but I still don't know what the difference is for the others ... (I guess I'm missing something obvious here) Ah

RE: setup feature request

2002-11-29 Thread Kris Thielemans
Ah yes. Default = If the package is installed, upgrade to the selected trust level (prev, current or experimental). If the package is not installed, but is in base or misc, install the select trust level's version of that package. Install = Install the selected trust level's version of

setup cancellation

2002-11-29 Thread Kris Thielemans
Hi, while trying out setup, I had a bit of a scare. It was halfway through an update, and I hit 'cancel'. setup exited immediately. This could have left my cygwin in an ill-defined state. So, here's one more feature request: When someone hits 'cancel', pop up a dialog box Do you want to abort

RE: setup feature request

2002-11-29 Thread Kris Thielemans
I don't like it. Setup's clicky spin control things are not the easiest thing to use. I would much prefer a radio button. well, obviously I thought so as well, as I didn't even see the 'spin control'. but now that I know they're there, I like them. I agree that the functionality of the

Re: setup feature request

2002-11-29 Thread Max Bowsher
Kris Thielemans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't like it. Setup's clicky spin control things are not the easiest thing to use. I would much prefer a radio button. well, obviously I thought so as well, as I didn't even see the 'spin control'. but now that I know they're there, I like them.

RE: setup feature request

2002-11-29 Thread Kris Thielemans
It's already a lot of clicking. Which is why I advocate a radio button. but you can't have a radiobutton for every category...

a final (?) feature request for setup

2002-11-29 Thread Kris Thielemans
Hi, I'd really like that the end-box with 'create icon on desk top' and 'add icon to start menu' has the check boxes not ticked when a previous installation is detected. (or at least have 'create icon on desk top' not checked all the time). Or maybe I can do that with the command line options,

[Draft Patch] Debug-Personality

2002-11-29 Thread Max Bowsher
A number of the setup.exe bugs being reported require a clean install to reproduce. This patch allows an alternate registry key to be used for the mount table, so enabling setup to simulate a clean install without interfering with your real install. NB: THIS ONLY AFFECTS SETUP. The faked installs

Re: a final (?) feature request for setup

2002-11-29 Thread Max Bowsher
Kris Thielemans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'd really like that the end-box with 'create icon on desk top' and 'add icon to start menu' has the check boxes not ticked when a previous installation is detected. (or at least have 'create icon on desk top' not checked all the time). Or maybe

Re: [Draft Patch] Debug-Personality

2002-11-29 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Max Bowsher wrote: A number of the setup.exe bugs being reported require a clean install to reproduce. This patch allows an alternate registry key to be used for the mount table, so enabling setup to simulate a clean install without interfering with your real install. I

Re: [Draft Patch] Debug-Personality

2002-11-29 Thread Max Bowsher
Pavel Tsekov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Max Bowsher wrote: A number of the setup.exe bugs being reported require a clean install to reproduce. This patch allows an alternate registry key to be used for the mount table, so enabling setup to simulate a clean install without

Re: [Draft Patch] Debug-Personality

2002-11-29 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 04:32, Max Bowsher wrote: A number of the setup.exe bugs being reported require a clean install to reproduce. This patch allows an alternate registry key to be used for the mount table, so enabling setup to simulate a clean install without interfering with your real

Re: [Draft Patch] Debug-Personality

2002-11-29 Thread Max Bowsher
Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 04:32, Max Bowsher wrote: A number of the setup.exe bugs being reported require a clean install to reproduce. This patch allows an alternate registry key to be used for the mount table, so enabling setup to simulate a clean

Re: [Draft Patch] Debug-Personality

2002-11-29 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 09:48, Max Bowsher wrote: DEBUG already has meaning to dlmalloc.c and IniDBBuilderPackage.cc. Can we choose another #define? IniDBBuilderPackage.cc DEBUG puts so much to the log, that its hard to see anything else, and I'm not sure I want a debug malloc unless thats

newer version of zsh available, please check and upload

2002-11-29 Thread Peter A. Castro
Hi, I've made some revisions after Hack rightfully pointed out that I was arbitrarily overlaying /etc/zprofile. Decided it was worth the effort to correct this and added some more examples while I was at. URLs: http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/zsh/setup.hint