Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: fixup-cygwin@cygwin.com@fixme From: "Paul G." Organization: New Dawn Productions To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 22:37:29 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: setup test #4 Reply-to: Paul Garceau Message-ID: <3BE1CEA9.7498.7BB70C@localhost> In-reply-to: <1004677947.5402.98.camel@lifelesswks> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v4.0, beta 40) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body snapshot -4 On 2 Nov 2001 at 16:12, the Illustrious Robert Collins wrote: > Ok, we're down to the little stuff. (after yet another upload). > > remaining TODO's: > Src tickbox / source only can be confusing. > Set the screen size for 640x480 users > > recently completed TODO's: > * installed packages aren't automatically upgraded. > * Dependencies should not trigger alterations to user actions for > installed packages that have any action other than uninstall. > * Wide descriptions can get truncated - ie SSMTP > * SKIP and KEEP sometimes appearing for the same package. > > keep the feedback coming please, this is great. > > Can the testers please retry now? > > please, pay special attention to the remaining TODO's: would it confuse > you the way the source action /src tickbox interact? It does. Even so, I can live with it. Most end-users (naive newbies) are likely not going to care too much about what Src? column actually is. > > If the confusion is bearable, I'd really like to call this version 'it' > once I set the window size to a 640x480 usable template.. Sounds good. > > The long term goal for source downloads is to let them be selected > separately from the binaries, either as separate source packages, or as > a completely independent spin control where the current src box it. I like that latter approach. > > The reason that there is a 'source only' in the New column is to handle > the case where a user doesn't have the package installed, and doesn't > want the binary installed - how do they indicate that they want just the > source. "Skip + src=ticked" doesn't really make sense. Does "Keep" care whether binary has been installed or not? If not, then "Keep+src=ticked" would handle this nicely. Paul G. > > Rob > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/