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Re: Customizable cygwin setup.exe


On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 04:27:26PM -0600, Miles Gazic wrote:
>If you'd like to host the perl script and modified setup.exe on a
>server somewhere, you could very easily have a web page deliver
>customized setup.exes to any poor shmuck that is trying to evangelize
>cygwin to people who are unwilling to do more than double-click an
>icon to install it.  The world would be a better place if this wasn't
>necessary, but in my experience it has been.

Again, I appreciate that you are trying to give something back to the
community but, frankly, what you've described is a massive error-prone
kludge.  The setup.exe command line options are how this should be
handled.  Or, if that isn't acceptable changing setup.exe would be
the way to handle a new requirement.

So, thanks for the suggestion but, no thanks.

cgf


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