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From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
To: "cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Scriptable start.exe
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 21:55:04 -0600
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On Behalf
> Of Joseph Annino
> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 3:52 PM
> To: cygwin
> Subject: Scriptable start.exe
>
>
> I saw some discussion in the archive that start.exe was once scriptable, and
> now isn't, and some people showed interest in making it scriptable again.
>

Setup.exe has never been scriptable in any respect, and no discussion to that
effect has occurred here to the best of my knowledge.  People have been
discussing adding such a feature, but I haven't seen any code.

> So I am wondering what the state of making start.exe scriptable is?  This is
> a feature that would be quite helpful on a current project so that clients
> can install a properly configured cygwin without the few clicks that are
> required now.
>

None of the people that have been working on setup.exe recently (including
myself) appear to have any desire to add any scripting functionality to it.
There's much more important work that needs to be done before such a notion
could even be realistically considered.

--
Gary R. Van Sickle
Brewer.  Patriot.


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