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Re: Scriptable start.exe


On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 09:55:04PM -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>> So I am wondering what the state of making start.exe scriptable is?  This is
>> a feature that would be quite helpful on a current project so that clients
>> can install a properly configured cygwin without the few clicks that are
>> required now.
>
>None of the people that have been working on setup.exe recently (including
>myself) appear to have any desire to add any scripting functionality to it.
>There's much more important work that needs to be done before such a notion
>could even be realistically considered.

Currently, setup.exe is simple enough that you could almost get by with
just using shell scripts, tar, and bzip2.

cgf

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