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RE: [rurban: Re: setup.exe command line parameters]
Reini Urban wrote on 24 June 2008 12:45:
> Dave Korn schrieb:
>> Christopher Faylor wrote on 22 June 2008 17:26:
>>
>>> The patch that Reini mentions here seems to have languished. It seems
>>> like it could be pretty useful. Is anyone willing to review it?
>>
>> Yep, I'll do that - I'll wait to see what Ralph comes up with though
>> and compare the two approaches before committing anything.
>
> Dave,
>
> I've found another useful command-line enhancement from Max' old days.
Nice one.
I'm not going to be very responsive right now, I'm at work. I'll get onto
these patches this evening.
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-02/msg00261.html
> Tracked at http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=854
>
> -E: use IE connection settings for downloading
> -H: give a proxy name to use ...
> -P: give a proxy port to use ...
> -a: install everything
> -u: uninstall everything
> -e: re-install everything
>
> Summary of the followups:
> -H does not clash with -h for help, but Rob doesn't like it.
> -P "name:port" for proxy would be preferred instead of
> -H proxy-host -P proxy-port
We already have a "-p host:port" proxy argument since a little while back.
Think I may have only applied it to mainline rather than branch. Will
combine the best bits from all these patches.
cheers,
DaveK
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