[PATCH] - setup.exe --text-mode and --current-user-only options

[Reini Urban]

Servaas Goossens schrieb:
> Sorry, I wasn't aware of these changes for 1.7. Does this mean that the
> 1.5 version of setup is not modified anymore? If so, I'll just keep
> using my own patched setup.exe.

Internally tracked at http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6689

Please keep discussion on cygwin-apps@

I would say the setup-1.5 will still stay for a while, at least until 
autumn. So why not.

BTW. The patch does not apply cleanly to the latest setup snapshot 2.588
I've added a fixed version to bugzilla


>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Brian Dessent [mailto:brian@dessent.net] 
>> Sent: woensdag 28 mei 2008 12:06
>> To: Servaas Goossens
>> Cc: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH] - setup.exe --text-mode and 
>> --current-user-only options
>>
>> Servaas Goossens wrote:
>>
>>> Please consider the following patch to setup. (I tried to follow the
>>> patch submission guidelines, please correct me if I missed 
>> something).
>>
>> This definitely conflicts with the direction that setup is moving in. 
>> In the 1.7 patches that I've been (slowly!) working on, the text/bin
>> choice is completely removed from setup because it's no 
>> longer stored in
>> the registry.  To get textmode with 1.7 you edit fstab.
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