Re: Cygwin setup.exe - command line parameters

2009-03-03 Thread Ralph Hempel
Lars Bjørndal wrote: snip Anyway, today I found a hacked version of setup.exe which allowed a command line parameter '-p package list', which was very useful. And that's why the new setup supports complete operation by the command line. Note that it still throws up the dialogs on the screen

Re: Cygwin setup.exe - command line parameters

2009-03-03 Thread Dave Korn
Lars Bjørndal wrote: Anyway, today I found a hacked version of setup.exe which allowed a command line parameter '-p package list', which was very useful. I found the hacked verison here: http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~mr349/setup.exe and the patch for it is here:

Re: Cygwin setup.exe - command line parameters

2009-03-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 3 15:03, Dave Korn wrote: Gang, we keep getting asked for this, and as long as we're going to keep a legacy 1.5 distro hanging around for people to use, shouldn't we ought to backport the patch to the branch? I'm kinda busy right now with binutils and gcc, and not likely to have

Re: Cygwin setup.exe - command line parameters

2009-03-03 Thread Dave Korn
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 3 15:03, Dave Korn wrote: Gang, we keep getting asked for this, and as long as we're going to keep a legacy 1.5 distro hanging around for people to use, shouldn't we ought to backport the patch to the branch? I'm kinda busy right now with binutils and gcc,

Re: Cygwin setup.exe - command line parameters

2009-03-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 3 15:36, Dave Korn wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 3 15:03, Dave Korn wrote: Gang, we keep getting asked for this, and as long as we're going to keep a legacy 1.5 distro hanging around for people to use, shouldn't we ought to backport the patch to the branch? I'm

Re: Cygwin setup.exe - command line parameters

2009-03-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 05:02:16PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 3 15:36, Dave Korn wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 3 15:03, Dave Korn wrote: Gang, we keep getting asked for this, and as long as we're going to keep a legacy 1.5 distro hanging around for people to use,

Re: Cygwin setup.exe - command line parameters

2009-03-03 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 05:02:16PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 3 15:36, Dave Korn wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 3 15:03, Dave Korn wrote: Gang, we keep getting asked for this, and as long as we're going to keep a legacy 1.5 distro hanging

Re: Cygwin setup.exe - command line parameters

2009-03-03 Thread Ralph Hempel
Corinna Vinschen wrote: I thought we were planning on keeping it around more-or-less indefinitely for the benefit of 9x users? Uh, well, yes. Never mind. If somebody wants to invest the time, feel free. Quick show of hands - how many people are still using 9x? Anyone? ... Buehler?

Re: Cygwin setup.exe - command line parameters

2009-03-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 3 11:49, Ralph Hempel wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: I thought we were planning on keeping it around more-or-less indefinitely for the benefit of 9x users? Uh, well, yes. Never mind. If somebody wants to invest the time, feel free. Quick show of hands - how many people are

RE: Cygwin setup.exe - command line parameters

2009-03-03 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Ralph Hempel wrote on Tuesday, March 03, 2009 11:49 AM: Quick show of hands - how many people are still using 9x? I stall have 98se on my home machine, but I almost never use cygwin on it. I can live without cygwin on it, and I can handle a gui. Perhaps the real question is the number of

Re: Cygwin setup.exe - command line parameters

2009-03-03 Thread Dave Korn
Ralph Hempel wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: I thought we were planning on keeping it around more-or-less indefinitely for the benefit of 9x users? Uh, well, yes. Never mind. If somebody wants to invest the time, feel free. Quick show of hands - how many people are still using 9x?