Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] mingw-get GUI

[Keith M. <kei...@nt...>]

On 28/01/13 23:02, Erwin Waterlander wrote:
> Keith Marshall schreef, Op 28-1-2013 23:05:
>>
>>  $ mingw-get install mingw-get-gui
>
> I tried it. At first it was stopped by the virus scanner (F-Secure). I
> had to turn off 'Deep Guard'. See
> http://waterlan.home.xs4all.nl/tmp/mingw-get-gui.jpg

This is unfortunate, but there's really not much I can do about an 
overly zealous virus scanner reporting a false positive; perhaps you 
could take that up with your supplier?

> After that mingw-get gui ran fine. I installed several packages without
> problems.

Good.  (I guess you didn't trip over the critical bug, which I've since 
tracked down, and fixed; time for a new snapshot, methinks).

> It would be nice if I could select a specific version to install.

You can do this already, from the CLI.  It's on my round tuit list of 
GUI features to be added, but there are more critical issues to address 
first.

> I would also prefer a more compact list of packages, by hiding all the
> different classes. By default one check-box per package that installs
> all classes, to keep it simple.

The as yet unimplemented tree view, (in the left hand pane), will offer 
a more fine grained selection of packages, (but this will be filtered by 
package category, rather than by component classes).

> I think it is good to install by default
> the accompanying documentation and so on. You could have an switch to
> turn on an "expanded view" in which you can see and select all the
> individual classes of a package.

The CLI does this, if you specify a package name without a qualifying 
component class, but that capability doesn't fit so cleanly within the 
GUI paradigm; (how do you display installed version, if the user has a 
mismatch within a set of components for a given package?)  I'll give it 
some thought, but it may languish on the "too hard pile" for some time.

> You could mention on the wiki there is an _experimental_ mingw-get gui
> now (Instead of the manual installation section). Mention that feedback
> is appreciated. Some new mingw users may try it out. Your message in
> mingw-users may have scrolled out of sight, and the old-time list
> members are probably already used to mingw-get cli.

I've left the manual installation section, for now, but with an added 
recommendation to avoid it; I have added some information on using GUI 
development snapshots.