On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 12:44:48AM -0400, Jon A. Lambert wrote:
>Many of the users I've turned on to cygwin don't immediately grok the
>notion that setup.exe is more than just a run once installation program.
>Usually the question after installing is "where is gcc? where is make?" "I
>installe
Christopher Faylor wrote:
This should be fixed in today's snapshot.
Thank you.
I can confirm that the postgres is working with latest snapshot.
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Bill Priest wrote:
I typically save cygwin's setup.exe to my Desktop as I update cygwin
quite often; however, I've found that this interferes with some other
(admittedly buggy and lame install programs). It isn't a big deal to
rename setup.exe to cygwin_setup.exe (or your favorite) or to do save
I've just reinstated the stripping of snapshots so that when you
download a compressed DLL (either directly or via cygwin-inst-*.tar.bz2)
it will not contain debug info. The debug info is now available as a
separate compressed '.dbg' file. To use the .dbg file for debugging,
you just have to unco
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 07:22:19PM -0500, Herb Martin wrote:
>> [mailto:cygwin-owner cygwin com] On Behalf Of Brian Dessent
??
>>I do not like the idea of adding the version to the name of the file.
>>To a naive user it would reinforce the incorrect idea that the ver
On 8/6/05, Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > I'd prefer
> > something like "can be a little complicated depending on what you're trying
> > to install".
>
> I think I can live with this as long as the sentence ends after the word
> "complicated." To me, the package selection
> setup.exe filename
> 111428 by: Bill Priest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 111431 by: Weiqi Gao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Can't you just click on the http://cygwin.com/setup.exe link from
>within IE and say "run"? There's no need to save it anywhere. This
>way you will be always be running the
On 8/7/05, Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Before anyone else trips, falls, and hurts themselves on this thread, let's
> put it back on the top shelf behind the locked door. After all, think of
> the children! ;-)
Oh, the children! Forgot about them. Should've been carefuller. :)
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Dessent
> I do not like the idea of adding the version to the name of the file.
> To a naive user it would reinforce the incorrect idea that
> the version of setup has anything whatsoever to do with the
> version of Cygwin and other packages that th
Jason Pyeron wrote:
> cygwin-update-client-.exe
I don't see how that changes anything. The version of the setup program
is next to irrelevent. As I said, if you try to run a version that's
not the current one you get a message, and updates of setup.exe are made
very infrequently. It is jus
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 11:50:25PM +0200, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
>After installing the stripped version of the snap 20050806, is not
>possible to open any shell which uses cygwin1.dll: there is a popup
>window of Windows with a message like this:
>
>" DLL... image damneged.. cygwin1.dll is not a
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Brian Dessent wrote:
A user might see "setup-1.2.3" and then later see "setup-1.3.4" and
think, "oh look it's a newer version of Cygwin." Or, they would look at
the version of setup.exe and not bother taking any action if it's the
same as the one they already have, even thou
Jason Pyeron wrote:
> I like typing start->run http://cygwin.com/setup.exe, as I am sure most of
> us do. But it would be a "best" practice to name the installer, something
> descriptive, like cygwin-2.457.2.2.exe.
I do not like the idea of adding the version to the name of the file.
To a naive
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Pyeron
> Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2005 6:39 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: setup.exe filename
>
> On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Herb Martin wrote:
>
> >
> > No, if you look closely you will see
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Herb Martin wrote:
No, if you look closely you will see this is almost never the case for
DISTRIBUTION package files or single install files -- it used to be true
but was given up as a poor practice.
how about a simple soultion here.
I like typing start->run http://cygwin
On Sun August 7 2005 18:09, WG wrote:
> On 8/7/05, Herb Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Which brings up those who wish to make it available for other
> > (internal) users
>
> Where I work, they've set up a internal cygwin mirror that's synched
> everyday. Works like a charm.
>
> > Naming the
> > Naming the program "setup.exe" is crude; it should have a version
> > number and something about "cygwin" in the name.
>
> Wait a minute. The full name of the file is http://cygwin.com/setup.exe.
No, the name of the FILE is setup.exe once it is saved (using defaults
which is what the "ave
On 8/7/05, Herb Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Which brings up those who wish to make it available for other
> (internal) users
Where I work, they've set up a internal cygwin mirror that's synched
everyday. Works like a charm.
> Naming the program "setup.exe" is crude; it should have a
After installing the stripped version of the snap 20050806, is not
possible to open any shell which uses cygwin1.dll: there is a popup window
of Windows with a message like this:
" DLL... image damneged.. cygwin1.dll is not a valid image..."
I have created a stripped version of the snap unpa
> Can't you just click on the http://cygwin.com/setup.exe link
> from within IE and say "run"? There's no need to save it
> anywhere. This way you will be always be running the latest
> and greatest Cygwin setup.exe.
>
Sure, you "can" do a lot of things, but this is not necessarily a
customa
On 8/7/05, Bill Priest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >cygwin.exe or cygwinsetup.exe would both be better names.
> >
> >If the name of 'setup.exe' was going to change, it would certainly
> >need to convey to the user that it is an installation program, so your
> >second suggestion might be better.
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>>cygwin.exe or cygwinsetup.exe would both be better names.
>
>If the name of 'setup.exe' was going to change, it would certainly
>need to convey to the user that it is an installation program, so your
>second suggestion might be better. Still, it is common practice to name
>setup programs 'set
Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
> On 8/4/05, Cliff Hones wrote:
>
>>I was curious as to why, under Cygwin, the default UK timezone
>>names (eg as displayed by "date") are different from the standard
>>names. [Standard UK names are GMT and BST, while Cygwin displays
>>GMTST and GMTDT.] So I did some
Hi folks, I've added and API function to cygwin and call it from a Linux
app.
The new function is included in the new cygwin.dll (dumpbin /EXPORTS
cyhwin.dll).
However, I don't know which is the new import library that application need
to link with.
I noticed also that the new function is in l
Environment: Windows 2000 Advanced Server (English), Service Pack 4 and fully
installed for microsoft automatic update
Sympton:
1. Cannot start sshd via window service after installed sshd by
'ssh-host-config' command
2. Error message by using cygrunsrv -S sshd
cygrunsrv: Error startin
Hello,
While porting a pthread-application from Linux to Cygwin I found
out that pthread_kill() behaves differently on Linux and Cygwin. It
looks like with Cygwin pthread_kill() sends a signal to the caller
thread instead of the thread specified in the argument list. I have
attached a test pro
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