From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [patch] a new setup.exe parameter to specify packages
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:13:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080804161249.GA10952@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <297343D29C14AA4D822142893ABEAEF305210910@srv1163ex1.flightsafety.com>
On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 10:34:21AM -0500, Thrall, Bryan wrote:
>Kohsuke Kawaguchi wrote on Saturday, August 02, 2008 3:24 PM:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I wrote a patch for setup.exe so that it can take a list of packages
>> to be installed via the -P option, like this:
>>
>> setup.exe -P openssh,cvs,subversion
>>
>> This would bring in the 3 modules and all their dependencies (of the
>> curr version.) The main use case for this is to perform unattended
>> installation from CLI.
>>
>> I tried to make the coding style match with that of choose.cc, even
>> though the coding style of setup.exe as a whole seems to be different
>> from choose.cc. This is the first time I write a patch for Cygwin, so
>> my apologies if I'm missing some requirements.
>
>It seems this would be a popular feature, with several patches submitted
>(including one from me):
>
>http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2006-03/msg00070.html
>http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2007-08/msg00054.html
>http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2008-04/msg00133.html
>
>But it never makes it into the source. It's a little frustrating.
>
>(BTW, thanks for the patch, Kohsuke! Your effort is appreciated)
Maybe it's time to start looking for additional setup maintainers.
Anyone want to volunteer?
cgf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-04 16:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-02 20:24 Kohsuke Kawaguchi
2008-08-04 15:35 ` Thrall, Bryan
2008-08-04 16:13 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2008-08-05 20:47 ` Brian Dessent
2008-08-05 20:50 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-08-06 16:42 ` Dave Korn
2008-08-06 17:18 ` Ralph Hempel
2008-08-04 20:35 ` Kohsuke Kawaguchi
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