On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 01:30:36AM +0000, Dr. Frank Lee wrote: >>Igor mentioned that he had some ideas for adding some sort of >>interactive support for cygwin packages so that they could ask questions >>and interact during installation. > >Can I, on behalf of everyone else who installs cygwin using wpkg >(http://www.wpkg.org - a system for managing software from a central >location without subscribing to Microsoft's Active Directory) put in a >plea for an option to disable interaction during install? > >I hacked together a patch for a "/p package1[,package2[,...]]" flag to >install package1,2 etc at install time for internal use which was >circulated some months ago - and rightly rejected for inclusion since the >coding style (I'm not a C/C++ programmer!) was terrible. I now feel it's a >good idea to raise the issue again - possibly requesting some help >regarding the 'right' way to do this with a view to getting the patch >accepted. Any volunteers to provide some assistance if I revisit this >patch and attempt to write it properly?
Please don't commandeer threads for your own purposes. If you feel that this must be discussed, please start a new thread. cgf
