Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <008c01c2e359$33d1d7e0$78d96f83@pomello> From: "Max Bowsher" To: References: <3E66173E.5000703@jhuapl.edu> <3E661917.6040405@hekimian.com> <1046895200.6079.25.camel@localhost> Subject: Re: setup.exe: something besides C++? Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 20:52:57 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Robert Collins wrote: > On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 02:34, Joe Buehler wrote: > >> I am one of the ones who would like to make install enhancements for >> my own use -- unattended installs for example -- but the existing >> code is not easy for me to figure out... > > Have you considered asking for pointers to the code areas to change? > > Setups code base is somewhat torturous at the moment, although that > gets better with every oportunity we get to hack on it. And theres > certainly folk here that can say "look at X to change that behaviour". I have a list of my own notes on what is in which file. I'll try re-writing it to be less cryptic and flippant. In the mean time, I'll be happy to give pointers about getting to know the setup code. Max. -- 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/