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setup readme possibility (was about nano)
- From: "Gareth Pearce" <tilps at hotmail dot com>
- To: rocco dot corsi at sympatico dot ca
- Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 00:53:07 +0000
- Subject: setup readme possibility (was about nano)
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changing subject title since this is a different topic really.
(Also switch to cygwin-apps since its about setup)
Actually, I haven't installed Cygwin for the first time on a machine, in a
long while. Does it popup a dialog to telling the user to modify the PATH
to include C:\cygwin\bin? If such a dialog exists, it could also mention
the CYGWIN variable set to "tty". Just an idea.
I havent used the development setup so I can't say for certain - and I
havent looked at the setup 'todo' listy thing so its quite possible its been
suggested before.
But at a guess a patch for dialog saying - read the documentation and
pointing out where it can be found... might be accepted. (I wont pretend to
second guess Robert's oppinions here). Setup does at least now install a
set of links to the documentation in the start menu (thinking thats probably
part of the documentation package but couldnt be sure).
Might be more acceptable if this was done by the post-instal script of the
documentation package (assuming it only told you on first instalation).
However that sort of thing would conflict with further work towards
automated instalation.
Prehaps there needs to be some standard set - setup will set up some
environment variable if its in an automated install - so that the scripts
can know they cant ask for user interaction and are to assume defaults.
Gareth - rambles.
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