Re: So *is* anyone thinking of adding support for some sort of dialog interaction for cygwin packages?

["Dr. Frank Lee" <rl201 at cam dot ac dot uk>]

> Igor mentioned that he had some ideas for adding some sort of
> interactive support for cygwin packages so that they could ask questions
> and interact during installation.

Can I, on behalf of everyone else who installs cygwin using wpkg 
(http://www.wpkg.org - a system for managing software from a central 
location without subscribing to Microsoft's Active Directory) put in a 
plea for an option to disable interaction during install?

I hacked together a patch for a "/p package1[,package2[,...]]" flag to 
install package1,2 etc at install time for internal use which was 
circulated some months ago - and rightly rejected for inclusion since the 
coding style (I'm not a C/C++ programmer!) was terrible. I now feel it's a 
good idea to raise the issue again - possibly requesting some help 
regarding the 'right' way to do this with a view to getting the patch 
accepted. Any volunteers to provide some assistance if I revisit this 
patch and attempt to write it properly?

Yours,

Frank