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Re: Customizable cygwin setup.exe


On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 05:41:42PM -0400, Ralph Hempel wrote:
>Miles Gazic wrote:
>>I made a local cygwin mirror at my company, but I still had some people
>>that got confused when installing cygwin.  I've had the same problem at
>>previous jobs, where people are confused when installing cygwin, and it
>>makes them reluctant to do so.
>>
>>I investigated what's required to customize the cygwin installer to
>>make it run without any manual interaction.
>
>Arrrgggh.  What is so hard about using the -P option?  Here's my
>standard DOS batch file for installing Cygwin.  Just change the
>download site and other bits you need for your install, and add
>packages to the PACKAGES variable.
>
>Why does everyone insist on rewriting the wheel?  It took a lot of work
>to knock the sharp bits off setup.exe (1.7) - so let's use it!

Even if you don't want to use the command-line options, rewriting
setup.exe is really not the way to do this.  That's just...  just...
wrong.

I appreciate that the OP is willing to give something back to the
community but it probably would have been better to have checked here
first before going to such effort.

cgf


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