X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <49A20419.4050603@cygwin.com> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:04:09 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20090101 Remi/2.0.0.19-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.19 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Setup - command line only References: <49A1DF61.5000509@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49A1DF61.5000509@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Kevin and Nancy wrote: > I was hoping someone would consider a version of setup.exe that only ran > on the command line, i.e. a non-graphical setup program. This would be > especially helpful for remotely updating packages of the Cygwin suite. I > think it's ironic that the Cygwin suite which specializes on command > line utilities only has a graphical user interface for setup/updates. > > A separate question might be, why can't setup update itself? Even, > "click here to download the new setup" would be a setup forward. > > Just some ideas. Hopefully, this isn't the 300th time someone has > asked, but I did do a Google before sending this. No, it's only the 289th time, which probably accounts for why you couldn't find it with Google. ;-) These kinds of features are missing from 'setup.exe' because there hasn't been a volunteer contributor for them. If you're interested in contributing something, see the link below: -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/