Re: MinTTY Shortcut Nonfunctional, Unable to Launch Shell

2018-02-24 Thread Thomas Wolff
... If I launch mintty from PowerShell, the window appears without incident, however the PATH is not set properly. You want to start a "login shell" to set up the PATH; append a "-" as a parameter: mintty - -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http

MinTTY Shortcut Nonfunctional, Unable to Launch Shell

2018-02-24 Thread R0b0t1
Clicking the icon I created that launches mintty directly does not work. Launching Cygwin.bat from C:\Cygwin64 gives me: 1 [main] bash 9772 fork: child -1 - CreateProcessW failed for 'C:\Cygwin64\bin\bash.exe', errno 13 bash: fork: Permission denied bash-4.4$ logout 0 [main] bash 10684

Request new Ruby release

2018-02-24 Thread Steven Penny
Please release new Cygwin Ruby. Current version is 2.3.6 (Dec 2017), and since then 2 versions have dropped [1]: - 2.4.3 (Dec 2017) - 2.5.0 (Dec 2017) 2.4.0 introduced Enumerable#sum [2], would be nice to have. [1] http://github.com/ruby/ruby/tags [2] http://stackoverflow.com/a/41235616 -- Pr

Re: Request new less release

2018-02-24 Thread Steven Penny
On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 08:44:53, Marco Atzeri wrote: Noted but until it is in beta I am not planning to release it. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2018-01/msg00198.html Note that version 530 has been released for "general use" (read: not BETA) http://greenwoodsoftware.com/less/index.html -- Probl

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: setup (2.889)

2018-02-24 Thread Jon Turney
A new version of Setup, release 2.889, has been uploaded to https://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe (32 bit version) https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe (64 bit version) Changes compared to 2.888: - Fix a crash which could occur with the --prune-install option - Fix a bug which prevented the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: octave forge packages

2018-02-24 Thread Marco Atzeri
New version of octave-dataframe1.2.0-1 octave-doctest 0.6.1-1 octave-financial0.5.1-1 octave-gsl 2.1.0-1 octave-image2.6.2-1 octave-instrument-control 0.