Jason, I see now that a lot of people on the list agree that command line options for setup.exe is a Good Idea and I'll let it go at that, in hopes that some C++ wizard picks it up. In the meantime I'll muddle through with scripts, lengthy explanations, and hand-holding.
Thanks for your responses. Cheers, Glenn Murray http://www.mines.edu/~gmurray On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Jason Tishler wrote: > Glenn, > > On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 11:04:01AM -0600, Glenn Murray wrote: > > Thanks again for the reply. > > No problem. However, this thread is getting off-topic (and > cross-posted) so we should end it very soon or take it off-list, if > necessary. > > > I think that command line support in setup.exe is a great idea. I > > noticed when browsing through the source code that there were comments > > about it. With command line support many, if not all of the dialogs > > could be skipped, and it might make it possible to install Cygwin as > > part of other applications when no/slow internet connections are > > present. This would be ideal. > > Agreed. > > > I'd like to contribute, too, but there are issues: > > [snip] > > I don't think I'm the right guy for the job, ... > > [snip] > > OK. > > > I don't believe there is a single Java app in Cygwin, is there? > > You are correct. Note that I didn't realize that your app was a Java > app. If so, then I would not have made the suggestion to contribute it. > > > Nor do there seem to be large packages for specialized audiences like > > ours. I'm not sure that Cygwin ever intends to have such packages. > > Actually, there some specialized ones but maybe not quite as specialized > as yours. :,) > > > On the other hand, if the Cygwin install process could be streamlined, > > its tools could be used by application developers and piggy-backed on > > their installations, > > Agreed, but... > > > and a lot more bona fide Cygwin distributions would be installed. > > (Just musing out loud, here.) > > Actually, there are many Cygwin installations already. > > Jason > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
