setup.exe: How specify web proxy by command line parameters

[Dr. Christoph Gille]

Hi Larry,

>> http://www.bioinformatics.org/strap/ which uses Cygwin.  Cygwin
>> My problem: I need to specify the Web-proxy.
> Sounds like you want Cygwin 1.7's setup.exe -> <http://cygwin.com/setup-1.7.exe>
Yes, that is what I need. It is great!
There is also the text search field that I missed so many years!
Why is it not yet the default setup.exe?

I would prefere a stable URL without the version number in the URL, something like
http://cygwin.com/setup-current.exe
Otherwise my program would need to probe several URLs with increasing version number.

Using this improved setup.exe there would be only one user interaction left:
The user needs to mark the closest mirror.
I do not think that this could be done automatically at the moment or what do you think?

Many thanks again
Christoph



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