[osgeo4w-dev] osgeo4w-setup.exe command-line options

[Frank Warmerdam]

Tomas_IV wrote:
> I had problems with performing unattended local install (I suppose you know
> about the crashes in this mode, it had been reported by others
> http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ticket/105) so I wanted to fiddle with
> command-line options. 
> What was my surprise, when I was not able to get list of options available!
> I tried --help, -h, -help, /h, /? to no avail. There is no output at all
> (not even an error message), depending on the options tried it either does
> nothing or starts the gui. I was not even able to find a list of available
> options anywhere on the internet. If I missed something, please let me know
> - or should I add this as a new ticket?
> I tried with version just downloaded from
> http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/osgeo4w-setup.exe -there does not seem to
> be any way to get version information either.

Tomas,

If you use the -h switch help is reported, but oddly it is reported to the
file setup.log and/or setup.log.full instead of to the console window.  I'm
not sure why this is - perhaps because it is a windows application and doesn't
have a stdin and stdout?

I'm afraid I don't grasp what ticket #105 is about though I must confess I
have not tried to reproduce it.

Best regards,
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