Stupid setup.exe tricks

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 08:06:14AM -0400, Ralph Hempel wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>And some of us just run setup from the command line and never even
>>>bother with the GUI until it has run to completion....
>>There's that too.  I am hoping to make that even more convenient
>>eventually.  I'd like to get rid of all remnants of the GUI when -q (or
>>some other option) is specified on the command line.
>
>Ahhhh, wouldn't that be nice.
>
>One additional feature that might be useful is a command line switch
>that allows a search through the package list that puts out a list of
>matches.
>
>Think of it as a grep through setup.ini
>
>On the other hand, once you've installed the base system it's pretty
>easy to write a script that does the same thing.
>
>And now I'm wandering off topic.  Start a new thread for replies
>please.

My hidden agenda is to make setup.exe completely usable as a
command-line package installer.  Sometimes I think that the only
way to do that is to write a wrapper around setup.exe to do more
interesting stuff and filter its output.  Sometimes I think it really
should be done in the setup.exe code itself.

But then I take a close look at the setup.exe code itself and...

cgf