From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15972 invoked by alias); 27 Nov 2001 18:59:49 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 15934 invoked from network); 27 Nov 2001 18:59:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com) (24.0.95.82) by hostedprojects.ges.redhat.com with SMTP; 27 Nov 2001 18:59:46 -0000 Received: from ece.gatech.edu ([24.5.105.154]) by femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20011127185946.XUYG10686.femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com@ece.gatech.edu>; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:59:46 -0800 Message-ID: <3C03E2C6.3060603@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 22:53:00 -0000 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephano Mariani CC: Mark Jones , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: New Install May Have a Bug References: <27731843.1006885703385.JavaMail.imail@blizzard.excite.com> <3C03DCA8.8000906@ece.gatech.edu> <001701c17773$b372e3c0$d400a8c0@sknet01> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2001-11/txt/msg01073.txt.bz2 Stephano Mariani wrote: > I and my colleagues share the opinion that the setup should include an > option to install ALL the packages with or without source automatically... > It is a huge pain to manually go through all the packages selecting them > repeatedly Yes, we know. This is already on the wishlist. > since the most recent version isn't always the first to appear. This is a confirmed misfeature, and fixing it is on the wishlist. > Perhaps a suggestion made earlier on this list by someone whose name i have > forgotten could be implemented: The setup could be controlled on the > commandline too perhaps with a filename as an argument. The file could > contain all the options required. Yep, AFAIK this is still being developed. Ya know, if you provided patches to implement your desired functionality, it'd probably get into the official setup.exe faster...Robert can't do everything by himself... --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Charles Wilson To: Stephano Mariani Cc: Mark Jones , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: New Install May Have a Bug Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:59:00 -0000 Message-ID: <3C03E2C6.3060603@ece.gatech.edu> References: <27731843.1006885703385.JavaMail.imail@blizzard.excite.com> <3C03DCA8.8000906@ece.gatech.edu> <001701c17773$b372e3c0$d400a8c0@sknet01> X-SW-Source: 2001-11/msg01661.html Message-ID: <20011127105900.jKVEctEdhSphgeel1WkNixWVpipMcsw1o5QmoLbW56o@z> Stephano Mariani wrote: > I and my colleagues share the opinion that the setup should include an > option to install ALL the packages with or without source automatically... > It is a huge pain to manually go through all the packages selecting them > repeatedly Yes, we know. This is already on the wishlist. > since the most recent version isn't always the first to appear. This is a confirmed misfeature, and fixing it is on the wishlist. > Perhaps a suggestion made earlier on this list by someone whose name i have > forgotten could be implemented: The setup could be controlled on the > commandline too perhaps with a filename as an argument. The file could > contain all the options required. Yep, AFAIK this is still being developed. Ya know, if you provided patches to implement your desired functionality, it'd probably get into the official setup.exe faster...Robert can't do everything by himself... --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/