Re: Cygwin installer could be much more better

2014-01-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 03:48:17PM -0600, Steven Penny wrote: >On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote >> Ah, right. Of course Chris meant "Please stop after Ilja gets his last >> comment in." Now that that's happened, MSYS discussion can stop. ;-) > >You want some on-topic? Ok

Re: Cygwin installer could be much more better

2014-01-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 1/29/2014 4:48 PM, Steven Penny wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote Ah, right. Of course Chris meant "Please stop after Ilja gets his last comment in." Now that that's happened, MSYS discussion can stop. ;-) You want some on-topic? Ok here goes Bash 4.2 has

Re: Cygwin installer could be much more better

2014-01-29 Thread Steven Penny
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote > Ah, right. Of course Chris meant "Please stop after Ilja gets his last > comment in." Now that that's happened, MSYS discussion can stop. ;-) You want some on-topic? Ok here goes Bash 4.2 has been out almost 3 years now, any roadmap f

Re: Cygwin installer could be much more better

2014-01-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 1/29/2014 3:40 PM, iljau wrote: On 2014-01-29 09:28 Christopher Faylor wrote: It should be pretty obvious that discussion about MSYS is off-topic. Please stop. I'll do it. Ah, right. Of course Chris meant "Please stop after Ilja gets his last comment in." Now that that's happened, MSY

Re: Cygwin installer could be much more better

2014-01-29 Thread iljau
f you for your attention. -- Ilja Umov https://iljau.me/ -- View this message in context: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/Cygwin-installer-could-be-much-more-better-tp105775p105830.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.co

Re: Cygwin installer could be much more better

2014-01-29 Thread Ilja Umov
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: >> there is a certainly a good historical reason why cygwin installer >> has so many options. But now one-click installers are so common >> (Google Chrome is the best example), it may look rather scary, >> especially for beginners. > > Google ch

Re: Cygwin installer could be much more better

2014-01-29 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Ilja Umov! > there is a certainly a good historical reason why cygwin installer > has so many options. But now one-click installers are so common > (Google Chrome is the best example), it may look rather scary, > especially for beginners. Google chrome is an ONE package. Cygwin setup i

Re: Cygwin installer could be much more better

2014-01-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 08:28:33AM +0100, Marco Atzeri wrote: >On 29/01/2014 07:57, Steven Penny wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 10:25 PM, Ilja Umov wrote >>> That's probably why MSYS2 is being developed: >>> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/Windows/MSYS2 >> >> Well I ha

Re: Cygwin installer could be much more better

2014-01-28 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 29/01/2014 07:57, Steven Penny wrote: On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 10:25 PM, Ilja Umov wrote That's probably why MSYS2 is being developed: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/Windows/MSYS2 Well I have to say I was skeptical until I saw this $ bash --version GNU

Re: Cygwin installer could be much more better

2014-01-28 Thread Steven Penny
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 12:57 AM, Steven Penny wrote > However this distribution is huge > > $ du -hs 'C:\cross64' > 763MC:\cross64 Well I found this for a start http://sf.net/projects/msys2/files/Base/x86_64 $ du -hs 'C:\msys64' 168MC:\msys64 -- Problem reports: h

Re: Cygwin installer could be much more better

2014-01-28 Thread Steven Penny
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 10:25 PM, Ilja Umov wrote > That's probably why MSYS2 is being developed: > https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/Windows/MSYS2 Well I have to say I was skeptical until I saw this $ bash --version GNU bash, version 4.2.45(1)-release (x86_64-pc-

Re: Cygwin installer could be much more better

2014-01-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 09:47:39PM -0700, Josh Hunsaker wrote: >Ilja Umov wrote: > >> I did browse a bit though cygwin source code and well, I'm not so >> great at C++, that I could help in any meaningful way. >> >> >> >> So there are multiple possibilities to provide reasonable defaults >> and sp

Re: Cygwin installer could be much more better

2014-01-28 Thread Josh Hunsaker
Ilja Umov wrote: > I did browse a bit though cygwin source code and well, I'm not so > great at C++, that I could help in any meaningful way. > > > > So there are multiple possibilities to provide reasonable defaults > and spare users from confusion. > > That's probably why MSYS2 is being develop

Cygwin installer could be much more better

2014-01-28 Thread Ilja Umov
Hi, there is a certainly a good historical reason why cygwin installer has so many options. But now one-click installers are so common (Google Chrome is the best example), it may look rather scary, especially for beginners. I did browse a bit though cygwin source code and well, I'm not so great a