Re: [patch] a new setup.exe parameter to specify packages

[Kohsuke Kawaguchi <kk at kohsuke dot org>]

Thrall, Bryan wrote:
> Kohsuke Kawaguchi wrote on Saturday, August 02, 2008 3:24 PM:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I wrote a patch for setup.exe so that it can take a list of packages
> > to be installed via the -P option, like this:
> >
> >   setup.exe -P openssh,cvs,subversion
> >
> > This would bring in the 3 modules and all their dependencies (of the
> > curr version.) The main use case for this is to perform unattended
> > installation from CLI.
> >
> > I tried to make the coding style match with that of choose.cc, even
> > though the coding style of setup.exe as a whole seems to be different
> > from choose.cc. This is the first time I write a patch for Cygwin, so
> > my apologies if I'm missing some requirements.
>
> It seems this would be a popular feature, with several patches submitted
> (including one from me):

Ah, OK, I didn't realized that I was duplicating an effort. As long as 
any one of them gets integrated,  I'm happy.

> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2006-03/msg00070.html
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2007-08/msg00054.html
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2008-04/msg00133.html
>
> But it never makes it into the source. It's a little frustrating.
>
> (BTW, thanks for the patch, Kohsuke! Your effort is appreciated)


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