Re: setup.exe: feature request with patch

2006-03-06 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Dr. F. Lee wrote: Hi All, I deploy cygwin using unattended (http://unattended.sf.net/) and wpkg (http://www.wpkg.org/). It's useful for me to be able to specify additional packages to be installed on the command line. The attached file is a patch to provide this: call "setup

setup.exe: feature request with patch

2006-03-06 Thread Dr. F. Lee
Hi All, I deploy cygwin using unattended (http://unattended.sf.net/) and wpkg (http://www.wpkg.org/). It's useful for me to be able to specify additional packages to be installed on the command line. The attached file is a patch to provide this: call "setup -p package1,package2,package3,...,p

setup.exe feature request

2005-10-26 Thread Stoddard, Isaac A
Folks, First of all, thanks for all you do to make our lives in MS-land more endurable! Several recent enhancements to Setup have made it sooo much better. For security or licensing reasons, we are frequently required to download source tarballs and compile them ourselves. To facilitate this, I

Re: setup.exe feature request (text mounts)

2005-09-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 11:19:43AM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>Cygwin already uses the default settings that we want it to use so, if this >>is implemented, we wouldn't want to make it the default. > >I meant "if the user chooses 'DOS'" (not the global default). I.e. d

Re: setup.exe feature request (text mounts)

2005-09-12 Thread Shankar Unni
Christopher Faylor wrote: Cygwin already uses the default settings that we want it to use so, if this is implemented, we wouldn't want to make it the default. I meant "if the user chooses 'DOS'" (not the global default). I.e. don't ever mount c:\cygwin as text, even if the user asks for DOS.

Re: setup.exe feature request (text mounts)

2005-09-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 11:00:42AM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote: >Since the text-mode mounts discussion (re: the "file" command) drifted >off into the merits of text vs binary mode (talk fodder), I thought I'd >split off this one as a top-level message to reiterate the request. > >Could setup.exe be

setup.exe feature request (text mounts)

2005-09-09 Thread Shankar Unni
Since the text-mode mounts discussion (re: the "file" command) drifted off into the merits of text vs binary mode (talk fodder), I thought I'd split off this one as a top-level message to reiterate the request. Could setup.exe be modified so that the choice of "text" vs "binary" (DOS vs Unix l