On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 02:02:44PM -0600, Jeremy Bopp wrote: >On 1/28/2010 12:20 PM, Heath Kehoe wrote: >> Anyway, for now I'm going to just comment out the call to note() at >> install.cc:295 so that my users can do installations without having to >> dismiss that popup 52 times. > >Rather than build your own copy of setup.exe while you wait for this >defect to be fixed, why not use the --packages option for setup.exe to >select the set of packages you know you need from the command line? If >your users would have difficulty with that, you could write a simple >batch file to wrap the setup.exe invocation.
OTOH, modifying source code and rolling your own copy is precisely why Free Software project exists in the first place. IMO, this is a great way of dealing with this kind of situation. I wish more people were willing to look at source code. 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
