Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 11/4/2013 2:11 PM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote:
>> Alternatively, you can grab the sources for setup and add an option
> to do what you want the way you want it.
>
> Well, that's a trivial option with open source, of course.  But also
> it means to maintain a branch of our own setup.exe, which is the
> least favorable of all.

That's the glass half-full view of it. ;-)

Assuming what you come up with is not just specific to your needs, I
see no reason the new option couldn't be included into setup's sources.
After all, I believe that's the ideal option that you were hoping for
(but already knew didn't really exist) when you asked the question.

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Larry

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