We've been discussing adding support for specifying package names on the setup.exe command line in the main cygwin list and it was suggested that the topic should be moved here.
The discussion centered around this patch: <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin.applications/16502> And has ended up with me looking at the current state of setup.exe and asking this question after Dave Korn's comment...
Dave Korn wrote:
Well, it needs a little debugging first, but it shouldn't be tricky to bash into shape.
Sorry for taking so long, but here's what we have so far. The "newer" patch referred to by Reini is against but the patch is against 2.590 which looks like it's a bout 2 point releases behind the current version in the 1.7 tree for setup. The current "released" version of setup is 2.573.2.2 So the question is, if I'm going to look at patching setup to accept a list of packages on the command line, then which version should we be merging the patches against? Ralph
