Arthur Schwarz sent the following at Tuesday, November 25, 2014 5:49 PM >Is there a general tool that will allow someone to see the definition of >all software in cygwin and allow browsing of libraries for content? If >there is not, how can I go about creating one (any ideas)? > >What I would like to see for executables is a setup-like tool to pretty >print information on all available software without going through setup. >Where a library is included, I would like to see something about the >routines included in the library. > >Info does a great job of showing information on executables which have >been downloaded (although its presentation format is really bad), but >provides no insight on available but not downloaded software. 'setup' >provides a thumbnail description of all available software, but you have >to use it in conjunction with the internet, and viewing and searching >is laborious. And I don't know if there is anything which provides some >brief information on library contents. I think for libraries you have to >go to the provided application developer documentation or use one of the >tools to read the library contents. > >So, anything there or anything I can do (to make it 'there').
To see package descriptions without setup, you can look inside setup.ini. In addition to the short description (sdesc) displayed by setup, it has a long description (ldesc), though sometimes that is just a repeat of sdesc. The requires line can help one from downloading far more than one wishes. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
