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Re: setup release pending...


Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Max Bowsher wrote:
>
>> Robert Collins wrote:
>>> Max,
>>> I'm still waiting on feedback from you. I don't need a patch for the
>>> MD5 checksums immediately, but I do need to know if you are working on
>>> one, or if you are objecting in principle but not planning on creating a
>>> patch.
>>>
>>> If the former, lets set a date for having the patch by.
>>> If the latter, let me know and I'll release setup.exe.
>>
>> Sorry, thought I had replied, but I can't find the message in the
>> archives.
>>
>> I will try and get a patch done by the time you have finished with Gary's
>> patches.
>>
>> BTW, are you aware that Pierre's security updates (that you refer to in
>> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-04/msg00091.html) are NOT
>> in setup yet?
>>  Max.
>
> Max,
>
> Reading the message you referred to:
>
> It can go in the next release, which currently has (*a list of patches*)
> slated for it.
>
> I read it as "the patches aren't necessarily in yet, but will go in before
> the release"...

Sounds reasonable. But discussion seems to have fizzled regarding Pierre's
patch, so we must be careful it isn't forgotten.

> Also, about the MD5 sum complaint, there were actually 2 separate
> complaints: 1) the MD5 summing takes too long (for setup to start up), and
> 2) the MD5 summing happens in the main thread, so setup stops redrawing
> when it's obscured temporarily.
>
> IMO, these two issues should be addressed separately.  Fixing 2 is as easy
> as doing MD5 summing in a separate thread, just like I've done with
> postinstall scripts.  I would offer to take a look, but don't think I'll
> have the time for a patch in the next few weeks, and don't want to hold up
> the release.
>
> As for fixing 1, it's been suggested, I believe, that only the packages
> that are being installed be MD5-summed (just summarizing here).

I'm attacking 1, trying to shift MD5-summing to as-needed rather than
at-startup.

Max.


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