Setup patch: List command line options on stdout

Gary R. Van Sickle g.r.vansickle@worldnet.att.net
Thu Nov 18 03:11:00 GMT 2004


[snip]
> I really don't understand why we should stand on our heads to 
> make setup.exe a console subsystem program (you don't need to 
> both specify -mwindows and -Wl,--subsystem=console, btw) when 
> you can just open up a dialog box to display the options, 
> like every other windows program in the world.

I can't say I've ever seen a Windows app do this.  Most simply don't have
command line options.  Those that do document them in "Help".  Of course we
don't have that either....

-- 
Gary R. Van Sickle



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