Re: Windows unattended installer

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charlotte Godley" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2015 10:59 AM
Subject: Windows unattended installer


> Hi,
>
> Forgive me if this is the wrong mailing list, but I’m trying to figure out 
> how and if it’s possible to run the windows installer from command line 
> unattended without having to click through the GUI. I use lilypond in a 
> python package - http://github.com/godley/museparse 
> <http://github.com/godley/museparse> and I’m now trying to use appveyor 
> continuous integration so that I know my tests work on windows, but to 
> achieve that I need to be able to give it a yml file with the instructions 
> on downloading and installing lilypond unattended, and I couldn’t find 
> anything on it other than the general universal builder which I gather is 
> for creating lilypond installers, not running them. Do you have any hints, 
> tips or links to instructions on this?
>
> Thanks,
> Charlotte

I've not followed why you need to perform unattended installation.  I would 
have expected that installing multiple copies side by side, prior to your 
tool using them, would be an equally valid approach?

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Phil Holmes