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egor duda wrote: > > Hi! > > Monday, 05 November, 2001 Christopher Faylor cgf AT redhat DOT com wrote: > > CF> After reading Corinna's reply to a cygwin mailing list message, it > CF> occurred to me that if the releases that people see in setup.exe could > CF> somehow be linked to the announcements, we could cut down on the amount > CF> of email from people who don't check or don't know how to check on these > CF> things. > > CF> It could be as simple as adding a "check release announcement" which > CF> just did starts a browser with a cygwin-announce search term. > > wouldn't we better include important info about updating in the > package itself, or along with it? > > not that i'm a big setup.exe fan, but reducing amount of noise in > mailing list is certainly a good thing. > I suggested something like this before. I would propose the announcement to go into an appropriate section of the setup.hint file or into a package-version-port.announce file that setup.exe also downloads and displays in a dialogue window with an OK button. -- Earnie. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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