[patch] a new setup.exe parameter to specify packages

[Thrall, Bryan]

Kohsuke Kawaguchi wrote on Saturday, August 02, 2008 3:24 PM:

> Hi,
> 
> I wrote a patch for setup.exe so that it can take a list of packages
> to be installed via the -P option, like this:
> 
>   setup.exe -P openssh,cvs,subversion
> 
> This would bring in the 3 modules and all their dependencies (of the
> curr version.) The main use case for this is to perform unattended
> installation from CLI.
> 
> I tried to make the coding style match with that of choose.cc, even
> though the coding style of setup.exe as a whole seems to be different
> from choose.cc. This is the first time I write a patch for Cygwin, so
> my apologies if I'm missing some requirements.

It seems this would be a popular feature, with several patches submitted
(including one from me):

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2006-03/msg00070.html
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2007-08/msg00054.html
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2008-04/msg00133.html

But it never makes it into the source. It's a little frustrating.

(BTW, thanks for the patch, Kohsuke! Your effort is appreciated)
-- 
Bryan Thrall
FlightSafety International
bryan.thrall@flightsafety.com