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Re: setup.exe, dependencies, and 'keep' mode


On 11/9/2011 5:43 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
There's a somewhat annoying behavior in setup.exe when installing
packages in 'keep' mode: all dependencies selected by things which would
have been installed in 'Curr' mode still try to download. Often I can

It's a setup.hint "bug". While setup.exe does support per-version requires: statements, most setup.hints don't use that, and instead specify "global" requirements.


So, bob uploads the new package "foo" which now requires libbar, and he simply modifies the (global) requirements to add libbar. When you try to "keep" the old foo, setup.exe still notices that the requirements now include libbar, and you don't have it installed, so...

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Chuck


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