Re: [PATCH 1/2] Copy setup.exe to /bin/cygwin-setup.exe

2011-02-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 2 23:24, Jon TURNEY wrote: Make a copy of setup.exe as /bin/cygwin-setup.exe. This enables a few useful things: - Register that copy of setup.exe with Add/Remove programs While that sounds nice, doesn't that introduce more puzzled questions? I can easily imagine people thinking they

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Copy setup.exe to /bin/cygwin-setup.exe

2011-02-03 Thread Reini Urban
2011/2/3 Corinna Vinschen: On Feb  2 23:24, Jon TURNEY wrote: Make a copy of setup.exe as /bin/cygwin-setup.exe. This enables a few useful things: - Register that copy of setup.exe with Add/Remove programs Shouldn't we start to seperate pure mingw executables from cygwin somewhen? Then we

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Copy setup.exe to /bin/cygwin-setup.exe

2011-02-03 Thread Charles Wilson
On 2/3/2011 8:13 AM, Reini Urban wrote: 2011/2/3 Corinna Vinschen: On Feb 2 23:24, Jon TURNEY wrote: Make a copy of setup.exe as /bin/cygwin-setup.exe. This enables a few useful things: - Register that copy of setup.exe with Add/Remove programs Shouldn't we start to seperate pure mingw

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Copy setup.exe to /bin/cygwin-setup.exe

2011-02-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 11:24:58PM +, Jon TURNEY wrote: Make a copy of setup.exe as /bin/cygwin-setup.exe. This enables a few useful things: - Register that copy of setup.exe with Add/Remove programs - Add a start menu item pointing to that copy of setup.exe - Type 'cygwin-setup -q -Ppackage'

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Copy setup.exe to /bin/cygwin-setup.exe

2011-02-03 Thread marco atzeri
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 11:24:58PM +, Jon TURNEY wrote: Make a copy of setup.exe as /bin/cygwin-setup.exe. This enables a few useful things: - Register that copy of setup.exe with Add/Remove programs - Add a start menu item pointing

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Copy setup.exe to /bin/cygwin-setup.exe

2011-02-03 Thread Reini Urban
2011/2/3 Charles Wilson: On 2/3/2011 8:13 AM, Reini Urban wrote: 2011/2/3 Corinna Vinschen: On Feb  2 23:24, Jon TURNEY wrote: Make a copy of setup.exe as /bin/cygwin-setup.exe. This enables a few useful things: - Register that copy of setup.exe with Add/Remove programs Shouldn't we start