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RE: setup.exe 2.218.2.8/9 broken
- From: "Harig, Mark A." <maharig at idirect dot net>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 11:01:43 -0400
- Subject: RE: setup.exe 2.218.2.8/9 broken
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cwilson@ece.gatech.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 11:52 PM
> To: John Haggerty
> Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: setup.exe 2.218.2.8/9 broken
>
(text deleted)
>
> (3) bug #2: minor issues with parsing "buried" setup.ini
> files -- that
> belong to things NOT cygwin-setup.exe-related. This happens
> only when
> someone says "My local setup directory is HERE" when HERE has
> subdirectories that don't belong to cygwin-setup. (That's
> bad, don't do
> that: setup's 'local directory' is his own personal playground and he
> doesn't play well with others)
I hope that this isn't going to be the solution to the problem of
setup.exe finding non-setup.exe setup.ini files. Although I don't think
that I will make this mistake again, I expect that it will happen to
future users who are not reading this list today.
Also, I'd like to suggest that when setup.exe finds syntax errors in a
setup.ini file, it log those messages in a file so that the messages can
be used in reporting problems with setup.exe. I've been unable to
cut&paste the text from the windows that list the parsing errors.
-mark
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