Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:40:08 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: setup.exe command line parameters
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On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 08:17:42PM -0400, Ralph Hempel wrote:
>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?

If you are going to be discussing setup development you should subscribe
to the cygwin-apps mailing list.

I can't speak for the setup.exe developers but I suspect that you should
be just using the CVS head for all of your development.

cgf

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