Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Setup.exe -> Creating a better user interface From: Robert Collins To: BB Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: References: <008501c3003d$462f0ec0$ef4fe5c2@sjoerd> <01ec01c3003e$365d4380$1c85883e@pomello> <008b01c30040$9ee01b60$ef4fe5c2@sjoerd> <025401c30043$57603ec0$1c85883e@pomello> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-GAcii+k7NLEDxFmDiABW" Organization: Message-Id: <1050108803.789.46.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: 12 Apr 2003 10:53:24 +1000 --=-GAcii+k7NLEDxFmDiABW Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 03:30, BB wrote: > If you are installing to an older slower Win9x machine from a CD, there i= s a > considerable pause when the list of packages is being generated. On a CD= I > gave someone, I warned them saying "Generating this list may take some ti= me > on a slow machine" Try the latest snapshot http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-2.350.exe I've fixed (somewhat) the traversal done when checking package requirements. It's only slightly better from a logic point of view, but should be much better from a user point of view. Rob --=20 GPG key available at: . --=-GAcii+k7NLEDxFmDiABW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+l2ODI5+kQ8LJcoIRApKqAJ45CigTOE8D/J8BwdTb5/Z76hNOjwCguQUY 1zAesnIC+zISG0HPJ3VTOlI= =uZEd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-GAcii+k7NLEDxFmDiABW--