Re: [PATCH] Setup.exe: allow -p option to specify categories as well as packages

2009-11-21 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 12:57:05PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 06:05:27PM +, Dave Korn wrote: >>> Christopher Faylor wrote: Why not add a new option entirely or some sort of different syntax for categories like "Net:" or som

Re: [PATCH] Setup.exe: allow -p option to specify categories as well as packages

2009-11-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 12:15:26PM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >On 04/11/2009 12:05, Dave Korn wrote: >>Do we actually have any packages that have the same names as categories? > >perl >python > >The categories are Capitalized where the packages are not, but I don't >think we want to go th

Re: [PATCH] Setup.exe: allow -p option to specify categories as well as packages

2009-11-04 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 04/11/2009 12:05, Dave Korn wrote: Do we actually have any packages that have the same names as categories? perl python The categories are Capitalized where the packages are not, but I don't think we want to go there. Yaakov

Re: [PATCH] Setup.exe: allow -p option to specify categories as well as packages

2009-11-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 12:57:05PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 06:05:27PM +, Dave Korn wrote: >>Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>Unfortunately, no, I don't think so. I like the idea but I don't like >>>overloading "-p" as it could cause confusion. >> >>Do we actually

Re: [PATCH] Setup.exe: allow -p option to specify categories as well as packages

2009-11-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 06:05:27PM +, Dave Korn wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>Unfortunately, no, I don't think so. I like the idea but I don't like >>overloading "-p" as it could cause confusion. > >Do we actually have any packages that have the same names as >categories? I guess we mig

Re: [PATCH] Setup.exe: allow -p option to specify categories as well as packages

2009-11-04 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: > Unfortunately, no, I don't think so. I like the idea but I don't like > overloading > "-p" as it could cause confusion. Do we actually have any packages that have the same names as categories? I guess we might do one day even if we don't now, but I didn't see th

Re: [PATCH] Setup.exe: allow -p option to specify categories as well as packages

2009-11-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 05:47:55PM +, Dave Korn wrote: > >Last but not least, > > I found myself wanting to run setup in unattended mode to install absolutely >everything, so I figured the nicest solution was to allow the -p option to >accept category names as well as package names, so tha

[PATCH] Setup.exe: allow -p option to specify categories as well as packages

2009-11-04 Thread Dave Korn
Last but not least, I found myself wanting to run setup in unattended mode to install absolutely everything, so I figured the nicest solution was to allow the -p option to accept category names as well as package names, so that I could use "-p All". The attached patch does just that.