Re: Ping? + RFC [was RE: Setup.exe vs corrupt lst.gz files.]

2008-02-26 Thread Brian Dessent
Dave Korn wrote: And here is part 1. No comments then? I'll apply it sometime tonight or tomorrow if nobody objects. Well, you labeled it as part 1 and so I mentally said, okay, I'll take a look at this whenever it's complete. Meanwhile (here's the RFC part), my suggestion for

RE: Ping? + RFC [was RE: Setup.exe vs corrupt lst.gz files.]

2008-02-26 Thread Dave Korn
On 26 February 2008 13:59, Brian Dessent wrote: Dave Korn wrote: And here is part 1. No comments then? I'll apply it sometime tonight or tomorrow if nobody objects. Well, you labeled it as part 1 and so I mentally said, okay, I'll take a look at this whenever it's complete.

Re: Ping? + RFC [was RE: Setup.exe vs corrupt lst.gz files.]

2008-02-26 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Brian Dessent wrote: Dave Korn wrote: And here is part 1. No comments then? I'll apply it sometime tonight or tomorrow if nobody objects. Well, you labeled it as part 1 and so I mentally said, okay, I'll take a look at this whenever it's complete.

Re: Ping? + RFC [was RE: Setup.exe vs corrupt lst.gz files.]

2008-02-26 Thread Brian Dessent
Dave Korn wrote: Meanwhile, part 1 OK for trunk? Yes, I think making that dialog modal is good. Igor Peshansky wrote: I don't like Dave's proposal either. However, simply disabling the Cancel button altogether is not the solution -- if the user is unable to interrupt the installation,

RE: Ping? + RFC [was RE: Setup.exe vs corrupt lst.gz files.]

2008-02-26 Thread Dave Korn
On 26 February 2008 14:55, Igor Peshansky wrote: The question is: what kind of behavior do we really want in case of cancellation? If we want setup to stop whatever it's doing (dependences, etc, aside), but be able to resume at a later point to fix the state of the system, then Dave's part 1

RE: Ping? + RFC [was RE: Setup.exe vs corrupt lst.gz files.]

2008-02-26 Thread Dave Korn
On 26 February 2008 15:24, Brian Dessent wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Meanwhile, part 1 OK for trunk? Yes, I think making that dialog modal is good. Thanks, will commit at a convenient moment. Igor Peshansky wrote: I don't like Dave's proposal either. However, simply disabling the

RE: Ping? + RFC [was RE: Setup.exe vs corrupt lst.gz files.]

2008-02-26 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Dave Korn wrote: On 26 February 2008 14:55, Igor Peshansky wrote: The question is: what kind of behavior do we really want in case of cancellation? If we want setup to stop whatever it's doing (dependences, etc, aside), but be able to resume at a later point to fix

Re: Ping? + RFC [was RE: Setup.exe vs corrupt lst.gz files.]

2008-02-26 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 07:24 -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: To really do this right (e.g. how MSI can rollback to the starting state midway through a aborted install) is a tremendous amount of work that I don't think anyone here is prepared to take on. FWIW this is why I started porting dpkg to