Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 23:13:38 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cbfalconer AT worldnet DOT att DOT net cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Simplifying Cygwin PosgreSQL Installation In-Reply-To: <3DBF4197.3BD337EF@yahoo.com> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, CBFalconer wrote: > Glenn Murray wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Jason Tishler wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 11:04:01AM -0600, Glenn Murray wrote: > > > > > > > I think that command line support in setup.exe is a great idea. > > > > I noticed when browsing through the source code that there were > > > > comments about it. With command line support many, if not all > > > > of the dialogs could be skipped, and it might make it possible > > > > to install Cygwin as part of other applications when no/slow > > > > internet connections are present. This would be ideal. > > > > ... snip ... > > > > > > Actually, there some specialized ones but maybe not quite as > > > specialized as yours. :,) > > > > > > > On the other hand, if the Cygwin install process could be > > > > streamlined, its tools could be used by application developers > > > > and piggy-backed on their installations, and a lot more bona > > > > fide Cygwin distributions would be installed. (Just musing out > > > > loud, here.) > > > > > > Actually, there are many Cygwin installations already. > > > > I see now that a lot of people on the list agree that command line > > options for setup.exe is a Good Idea and I'll let it go at that, > > in hopes that some C++ wizard picks it up. In the meantime I'll > > muddle through with scripts, lengthy explanations, and hand-holding. > > I have tried to untangle the top-posted hell this thread has > become. > > Where is the source for setup anyway? (in little baby words > please). http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html Please send further questions about the build process to the cygwin-apps list. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Water molecules expand as they grow warmer" (C) Popular Science, Oct'02, p.51 -- 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/