Re: Windows setup.exe checkbox control options

["Luis MartinGarcia." <luis.mgarc () gmail com>]

It looks good to me. However, /S may be a bit cryptic. Would it possible
to also let users specify "/SILENT" ?

Luis MartinGarcia.




On 04/27/2010 05:21 PM, David Fifield wrote:
> The TODO says that the Windows setup.exe installer needs a way to
> disable options from the command line. Here is a patch to do that.
>
> It adds these options to the installer to go with the existing /S
> (silent) and /NPFSTARTUP=NO.
>
> ;;   /NMAP=NO          don't install Nmap
> ;;   /REGISTERPATH=NO  don't add the installation directory to PATH
> ;;   /WINPCAP=NO       don't install WinPcap
> ;;   /REGISTRYMODS=NO  don't install performance-related registry mods
> ;;   /ZENMAP=NO        don't install Zenmap
> ;;   /NCAT=NO          don't install Ncat
> ;;   /NDIFF=NO         don't install Ndiff
> ;;   /NPING=NO         don't install Nping
>
> If you wanted to install without Ndiff and Nping, for example, you would
> run the installer with one of
>
> nmap-VERSION-setup.exe /NDIFF=NO /NPING=NO
> nmap-VERSION-setup.exe /S /NDIFF=NO /NPING=NO
>
> In the first case, the checkboxes would be initially disabled in the
> graphical interface. In the second with /S, there's no interface shown,
> so Ndiff and Nping just don't get installed.
>
> The patch is not controversial; I'm looking for feedback on the option
> names and syntax.
>
> David Fifield
>   
>
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