Re: Is there a tool for viewing all cygwin/GNU Software submissions

2014-11-26 Thread Helmut Karlowski
You could also try a little script I wrote: http://home.arcor.de/zabruder/cygwin/cygdesc It needs files created by cygcheck-dep. Docs inside. -Helmut -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.co

Re: Is there a tool for viewing all cygwin/GNU Software submissions

2014-11-26 Thread Keith Christian
Hi Arthur, Two ways that I know of (besides Steven Penny's "apt-cyg" method.) 1 The fastest way to get the whole catalog is to run the setup program, but stop before installing any software (unless that is your ultimate goal.) Open a browser and download the setup program (http://cygwi

Re: Is there a tool for viewing all cygwin/GNU Software submissions

2014-11-25 Thread Steven Penny
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Arthur Schwarz wrote: > 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? apt-cyg might work for you http://github.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg Examples Displays the packa

RE: Is there a tool for viewing all cygwin/GNU Software submissions

2014-11-25 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
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

Re: Is there a tool for viewing all cygwin/GNU Software submissions

2014-11-25 Thread Warren Young
On Nov 25, 2014, at 3:49 PM, Arthur Schwarz wrote: > 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

Is there a tool for viewing all cygwin/GNU Software submissions

2014-11-25 Thread Arthur Schwarz
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 al