<begin rant> Robert, you are a saint. I am sick and tired of the whining about setup and downloads.
SETUP IS NOT A MIRRORING TOOL. In order to make this clear, I am in favor of completely removing the download-only option, leaving just install-from-internet and install-from-localdir. This will force the whiners to either shut up and use a fscking mirroring tool, or help out: Robert has already said what the correct solution to all this is: create a separate program that leverages the setup.exe codebase, to do "multi-source merged mirroring". This will require: 1) Add command-line options for setup.exe. Robert has added a helpful set of examples. He even created a whole new project, GetOpt++, to support this. What more can Robert, all by himself, do? 2) Create a new cygmirror.cc as part of the setup module, that uses some (but not all) of the other classes in the setup module. According to Robert: > The differences between setup and a mirroring tool include: > * All the install code isn't needed. > * Attention to local packages isn't needed. > * Persistent selection of packages irrespective of install status > should be present. > * command line driven may be useful? I'll add one more: reading options (or package lists) from a file. Now, unless somebody who WANTS this functionality actually steps up to the plate and digs in, can we PLEASE stop discussing this issue? Removing the download-only option will also have the salutory effect of forcing the whiners to either: 1) use a REAL mirroring tool, then use setup.exe to install-from-local-dir 1a) heck, you could even use wget; I've posted a script to this mailing list that does exactly that. 2) help out with the coding. Either way, it kills "setup download only mode doesn't do what I want" "What's up with the wacky %%%'ified directory names in my local setup directory" "Setup sucks" threads that NEVER DIE!. --Chuck -- 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/