This is the mail archive of the
cygwin@sources.redhat.com
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: Who broke the new SETUP.EXE?
- To: dberger at SoftwareConstruction dot com
- Subject: Re: Who broke the new SETUP.EXE?
- From: DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 13:05:27 -0400
- CC: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <000401c0338c$96a4e1c0$6401a8c0@san.rr.com>
> While the new SETUP.EXE is nice in that it tells you version
> numbers, etc., the previous version allowed me to create my own
> directories containing tar.gz files and it would install them for
> me. This was very convenient for setting up specialized Cygwin
> installations at work. Is there any way to get that behavior now?
The old behaviour still works. Just make sure you *don't* have a
setup.ini file in that directory (or create a custom setup.ini for
that directory).
> In addition, when downloading the initial files, SETUP.EXE shouldn't
> use the simple browse dialog, but the full file dialog. If I want
> to save in a new directory it is impossible in the browse dialog
> because it has no method to create new directories.
http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/cvs.html
I couldn't find a dialog that let you create and pick a directory,
without also letting you pick a file, which is an invalid response in
that case.
--
Want to unsubscribe from this list?
Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com