How to install packages...

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 07:05:07PM -0700, Bruce Alderson wrote:
>> Your suggestion came out fine.  It has just been suggested hundreds of
>> times in the past.
>
>Ah, I've been lurking on the list for ages - but not noticed the
>request.  Apologies.
>
>Anyway, would it be worth submitting a patch for the functionality, or
>is the dev rather closed?

It is in no way closed.  You couldn't have been lurking long if you haven't
seen the quote:

"Patches gratefully accepted"

However, I should point out that Robert Collins implemented much of the
command line functionality a while ago.  AFAIK, it is not yet so
complete that you can do a full batch-mode install but I assume that
most of the hooks should be there.

Discussion for this kind of thing typically takes place in cygwin-apps.
You welcome to subscribe to that list.  There are several people hacking
at setup over there.

Good luck!

cgf

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