Re: [PATCH 1/4] setup.exe

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 08:10:25PM +0100, Achim Gratz wrote:
>Christopher Faylor writes:
>> Regarding the autorebase changes, I am not against the idea of implementing
>> a general purpose mechanism to have setup.exe "do something" when it notices
>> certain file patterns being added or deleted.  This would move the current
>> 'autodep' functionality from the "upset" program which creates setup.ini into
>> setup.exe itself.
>
>I've had a brief look, I would not want to add another (regex) library
>to the sources, but if std::regex can be used (I haven't checked which
>version of gcc first had it), this should not be too difficult to
>implement.
>
>Another question is how to call this, I'd rather use "autorun" rather
>than "autodep" (but I haven't really made up my mind).  The semantics
>would roughly be that the package plus its dependencies must be
>installed and then whenever the autorun regex matches, a script that has
>been installed with the package is run.  Those scripts should not be in
>/etc/postinstall and for general use it would probably be useful to be
>able to chose if it gets run before or after the postinstall scripts.

The autodep/autorun wasn't an either/or.  We need the autodep and, while
you may need the ability to unconditionally run programs whenever
setup.exe is executed, the Cygwin project don't.  However, you could get
the behavior you want with autodep with something like:

autodep: .

cgf