RE: Command-line options for setup.exe

2003-02-25 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> On 26 Feb 2003, Robert Collins wrote: > > > A cute thing that the iteration interface to the command line options > > would enable is a 'tip of the day' - randomly choose a parameter from > > the collection, and show just it to the user. (Presumably combined with > > some static tips on the GUI

Re: Command-line options for setup.exe

2003-02-25 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On 26 Feb 2003, Robert Collins wrote: > A cute thing that the iteration interface to the command line options > would enable is a 'tip of the day' - randomly choose a parameter from > the collection, and show just it to the user. (Presumably combined with > some static tips on the GUI :]). > > Rob

Re: Command-line options for setup.exe

2003-02-25 Thread Robert Collins
A cute thing that the iteration interface to the command line options would enable is a 'tip of the day' - randomly choose a parameter from the collection, and show just it to the user. (Presumably combined with some static tips on the GUI :]). Rob -- GPG key available at:

Re: Command-line options for setup.exe

2003-02-25 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 10:26, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > That will let setup iterate over the options, extracting the help text > > and placing into a GUI text area (or a combobox etc etc). > > Hmm, build a const String and pop up a MessageBox? > Igor As a 'For instance', yes. Rob --

Re: Command-line options for setup.exe

2003-02-25 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On 26 Feb 2003, Robert Collins wrote: > On Wed, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:46, Max Bowsher wrote: > > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: > > >> No, building it as a MinGW app is fine. > > >> But it must be run from a CYGWIN=tty shell. > > > > > > Oh, ok. I don't use "tt

Re: Command-line options for setup.exe

2003-02-25 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 09:46, Max Bowsher wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: > >> No, building it as a MinGW app is fine. > >> But it must be run from a CYGWIN=tty shell. > > > > Oh, ok. I don't use "tty" myself, so I needed it built as a Cygwin > > app.

Re: Command-line options for setup.exe

2003-02-25 Thread Max Bowsher
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: >> No, building it as a MinGW app is fine. >> But it must be run from a CYGWIN=tty shell. > > Oh, ok. I don't use "tty" myself, so I needed it built as a Cygwin > app. Could it, perhaps, pop up a dialog box instead if stdout is no

Re: Command-line options for setup.exe

2003-02-25 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > There is even a patch outstanding that > > adds a "--help" option to list all available options: > > (with one > > caveat: setup has to be built as a Cygwin app from sour

Re: Command-line options for setup.exe

2003-02-25 Thread Max Bowsher
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > There is even a patch outstanding that > adds a "--help" option to list all available options: > (with one > caveat: setup has to be built as a Cygwin app from source for you to > see console output). No, building

Re: Command-line options for setup.exe

2003-02-25 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Lars Munch wrote: > On Sat, Feb 22, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:15:29PM -0500, Garg, Rajiv wrote: > > Does setup.exe support command-line options? If so, where can I find > > the documentation for them? I would like to roll-out Cygwin to 300+ > > machines and command-line options to i

Re: Command-line options for setup.exe

2003-02-24 Thread Barry Buchbinder
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 12:15:29PM -0500, Garg, Rajiv wrote: > Does setup.exe support command-line options? see http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-11/msg01490.html - Barry Buchbinder __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, t

Re: Command-line options for setup.exe

2003-02-24 Thread Lars Munch
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 12:15:29PM -0500, Garg, Rajiv wrote: > Does setup.exe support command-line options? If so, where can I find > the documentation for them? I would like to roll-out Cygwin to 300+ > machines and command-line options to install all packages found in > network share would be s

Command-line options for setup.exe

2003-02-22 Thread Garg, Rajiv
Does setup.exe support command-line options? If so, where can I find the documentation for them? I would like to roll-out Cygwin to 300+ machines and command-line options to install all packages found in network share would be simplest method, otherwise I might have to repackage it into a MSI usi