X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:46:55 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Setup.ini file for Silent Install Message-ID: <20100326184655.GA6952@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4BAB597F DOT 4010705 AT bmts DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:25:59AM +0100, Christoph Herdeg wrote: >On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:39:22PM +0100, Christoph Herdeg wrote: >>I can't stand seeing this question come up every week again... Yes, this is >>definitely possible, but due to Cygwin's completely crappy installer >>(setup.exe) it's a real pain in the ass. > >Is there eventually a possibility of someone explaining to me why Jonathan >used my incredibly complex and hard to maintain method rather than >following Daves eloquent advice?!? I could only find one message from Jonathan in the archives and that is the initial query. So, it is not in evidence that he is using your complicated method. >Although it's so funny that my message cam *after* somebody telling him how >to do this with setup.exe?!? > >Never the less: >- Dave, thank so much you for posting setup.exe's command line switches. >That was probably the 1st thing Jonathan did. >- Christopher, thank you so much for telling the world how dumb everybody >is, that doens't do something your way. You replied to a request for information implying that a question which comes up every week goes unanswered and then referred to setup.exe as "Cygwin's completely crappy installer". Given that, you were publicly criticizing the cygwin community, it seems rather naive of you not to expect some sort of response. And, given that we all know how very mean this mailing list is, this response: On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 08:46:28AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >Funny how your email comes *after* someone telling the OP how to do this >with setup.exe. seems pretty mild to me, especially when it is a response to someone who chose to use such critical language to begin with. >Guys: If you have a cooler/simpler/better to maintain way to do a >completely unattended installation of Cygwin: Great...I'd love to >applaud it. The cooler/simpler/better way was already demonstrated. If this isn't adequate then we'd love to see patches to setup.exe to improve it rather than promoting complicated cookbook approaches. >Please let the world take part --- or keep quiet. Hmm. That seems like a rather contradictory sentence. Lucky we can all ignore it. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple