Setup - command line only

[Ralph Hempel]

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> Ralph Hempel wrote:
>> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>>
>>> No, it's only the 289th time, which probably accounts for why you 
>>> couldn't
>>> find it with Google. ;-)  These kinds of features are missing from
>>> 'setup.exe' because there hasn't been a volunteer contributor for them.
>>> If you're interested in contributing something, see the link below:
>>
>> OK, the update of setup is not supported, but setup DOES in fact
>> allow fully command line based operation. I know because I moaned
>> about it, collected and tested patches, and even contributed a minor
>> fix to the option parsing.
> 
> That's true but I believe the OP was lamenting that there wasn't a
> version that didn't still have the GUI even when run from the command
> line.  If I'm wrong, then I'm sure you've made the OP's day. :-)

That's what I like about this list - there's always another way to
interpret a question.

For me, the fact that I can now drive setup using a command line is
good enough. The fact that the GUI is still visible and being driven
by the magic command line incantation is a non-issue for me :-)

Ralph

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