Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 08/28/2009 02:55 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: >> Larry Hall: >>> Adding a link to<http://cygwin.com/setup.exe> shouldn't be allot of >>> work >>> and may help if the menu was properly named. >> >> Good idea. I'll throw a name into the ring: "Cygwin package manager". > > While I personally would think that's fine, I'm not sure it addresses the > need that sparked this thread offshoot. For people who have trouble > recognizing that they need to invoke 'setup.exe' to update, add and remove > packages, we might need to be more explicit like "Update/Add/Remove > Cygwin Software". I'm not married to my alternate wording though.
An actual literal link to the website will just launch a browser and a "Save as / Run from ..." dialog on most people's machines. I think doing this right would require us to keep a local copy of setup.exe on people's machines. That probably implies making a proper package of it and figuring out a way for it to be able to update itself. Nothing too impossible about that, we could add a command-line option telling setup.exe to duplicate and re-spawn itself from a temp copy, or just wrap a bash script around it to do that. I like the idea of having one link called "Package Manager" that starts it at the first page and another called "Update/Add/Remove Cygwin Software" that runs it in unattended install-from-internet mode right through to the chooser page. cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple