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
