From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18233 invoked by alias); 4 Nov 2013 19:28:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 18222 invoked by uid 89); 4 Nov 2013 19:28:03 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: vms173005pub.verizon.net Received: from Unknown (HELO vms173005pub.verizon.net) (206.46.173.5) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 19:28:02 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.231] ([unknown] [74.104.179.122]) by vms173005.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0MVR00G097E4D980@vms173005.mailsrvcs.net> for cygwin@cygwin.com; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 13:27:53 -0600 (CST) Message-id: <5277F52F.4020709@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 19:28:00 -0000 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure References: <5F8AAC04F9616747BC4CC0E803D5907D0C40C86D@MLBXv04.nih.gov> <5277D4A0.1050809@cygwin.com> <5F8AAC04F9616747BC4CC0E803D5907D0C40C913@MLBXv04.nih.gov> <5277DB67.5050903@cygwin.com> <5F8AAC04F9616747BC4CC0E803D5907D0C40C962@MLBXv04.nih.gov> <5277E992.8070602@cygwin.com> <5F8AAC04F9616747BC4CC0E803D5907D0C40CA72@MLBXv04.nih.gov> In-reply-to: <5F8AAC04F9616747BC4CC0E803D5907D0C40CA72@MLBXv04.nih.gov> Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2013-11/txt/msg00092.txt.bz2 On 11/4/2013 2:11 PM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: >> Alternatively, you can grab the sources for setup and add an option > to do what you want the way you want it. > > Well, that's a trivial option with open source, of course. But also > it means to maintain a branch of our own setup.exe, which is the > least favorable of all. That's the glass half-full view of it. ;-) Assuming what you come up with is not just specific to your needs, I see no reason the new option couldn't be included into setup's sources. After all, I believe that's the ideal option that you were hoping for (but already knew didn't really exist) when you asked the question. -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple