Re: Shift-Tab for Backwards Completion

2008-06-20 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Frank Jacobs (Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:51:00 -0500) > > Because Windows Console returns the same keycode for shifted/ > > unshifted and for the Ctrl key. You can easily test that with > > [Ctrl][V] or "od -c" (which are the standards tools to find out the > > key codes to be able to assign actions to

RE: setup.exe needs package name selection filter

2008-06-20 Thread Dave Korn
reikred wrote on 20 June 2008 02:08: > Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 09:51:03AM +0900, wynfield wrote: >>> I agree with reikred below. Search, functionality would be greatly >>> appreciated. It seems crude to have to scroll page by page and manually >>> look for a searched

RE: setup.exe needs package name selection filter

2008-06-20 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Dave Korn wrote: > reikred wrote on 20 June 2008 02:08: > > > Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> > >> Yes. It's called > >> > "make-setup.exe-demands-and-then-sit-back-and-wait-for-people-to-implement-y > [EMAIL PROTECTED]" > >> > >> cgf > >> [...] > > > > Please rea

Re: setup.exe needs package name selection filter

2008-06-20 Thread Mark J. Reed
Is there a ticketing/tracking system for Cygwin where one can submit feature requests? I think having it documented in the system as something more than someone's wishful email would be helpful. As far as improvements to setup.exe, I think the Cygwin team could potentially save a lot of effort in

Re: setup.exe needs package name selection filter

2008-06-20 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [Please avoid http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU - don't top-post] [Please avoid feeding the spammers - http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR ] According to Mark J. Reed on 6/20/2008 6:23 AM: | Is there a ticketing/tracking system for Cygwin where

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: git-1.5.6-1

2008-06-20 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of git, 1.5.6-1, has been uploaded, leaving 1.5.5.1-1 as the previous version. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. See also the package documentation in /usr/share/doc/git-1.5.6/, along with the attached upstream release notes.

Re: setup.exe needs package name selection filter

2008-06-20 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > [Please avoid http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU - don't top-post] > [Please avoid feeding the spammers - > http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR ] Sorry, I need to stop using GMail Mobile to post to this list. It leaves me no option about ei

locale.h: No such file or directory

2008-06-20 Thread Terrence Brannon
I have libcharset and libiconv and libiconv2 installed, but for some reason locale.h cannot be found in my Cygwin distro. How do I get it installed? <501-- ~/prg/cpp/acpp --> cat small.cpp #include int main() { std::cout << "Hello, world!" << std::endl; return 0; } <502-- ~/prg/cpp/acpp

Re: Shift-Tab for Backwards Completion

2008-06-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:17:30PM +0200, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >The question is why you do have different actions for those in Cmd >(which uses the same Windows terminal). Maybe because Cmd does not use >the same "keycode" mechanism as the Unix terminal/shells. But that's all >more or less gues

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: postgresql-8.2.5-1

2008-06-20 Thread Reini Urban
postgresql 8.2.5-1 is promoted from test to current. What's new: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/release-8-2-5.html Before you upgrade a postgresql package to a new new major or minor version (7.4 => 8.0 => 8.1 => 8.2), be sure to dump all your data before! With the new package you w

Re: setup.exe needs package name selection filter

2008-06-20 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Mark J. Reed wrote: On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Eric Blake wrote: [Please avoid http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU - don't top-post] [Please avoid feeding the spammers - http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR ] Sorry, I need to stop using GMail Mobile to post to this list. It leaves me

Re: setup.exe needs package name selection filter

2008-06-20 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Mark J. Reed wrote: >> Sorry, I need to stop using GMail Mobile to post to this list. It >> leaves me no option about either of those. > > I assume you mean beyond doing this manually. Unfortunately, no. I don't mind rearranging quot

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: git-1.5.6-1

2008-06-20 Thread Reini Urban
> A new release of git, 1.5.6-1, has been uploaded, leaving 1.5.5.1-1 as the > previous version. I'm a bit annoyed about the waste of space and the lack of a cyggit.dll Now they use a static libgit.a and hardlink the exe's, which does not work as expected for us. Well, we could change the Makefile

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: git-1.5.6-1

2008-06-20 Thread Reini Urban
2008/6/20 Reini Urban wanted a shared libgit: > Eric, should I post this to some git list also, or just when I found the > error? Just for reference: The other shared libgit patch is at http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/8680/match=shared+lib -- Reini Urban http://phpwiki.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: git-1.5.6-1

2008-06-20 Thread Brian Dessent
Reini Urban wrote: > Some attribute causes the linker to refuse to build the dll and wants > to build an exe. That's because you used -Wl,-shared where you should have used -shared. When you use -Wl the driver treats the argument as an opaque value that is simply passed to the linker without int

what is the status of proftp for cygwin?

2008-06-20 Thread Mike Marchywka
Hi, I was looking for an ftp server to use with cygwin. First, let me say that I got an old machine running windoze 2k pro and was able to do a full clean cygwin install with no obvious problems :) But, after hunting around I didn't find proftp in the available packages ( but may have missed s

setup.exe command line parameters

2008-06-20 Thread Ralph Hempel
With all of the talk about setup package selection and install procedures, I have a little story. One of the things I do for fun is write replacement firmware for the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT - specifically pbLua. I needed an easy way to build the ARM7 cross compiler, and to locate and program the NXT

Re: setup.exe command line parameters

2008-06-20 Thread cuicui
Ralph Hempel a écrit : With all of the talk about setup package selection and install procedures, I have a little story. One of the things I do for fun is write replacement firmware for the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT - specifically pbLua. I needed an easy way to build the ARM7 cross compiler, and to lo

Re: setup.exe needs package name selection filter

2008-06-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:49:21PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Mark J. Reed wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Eric Blake wrote: >>> [Please avoid http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU - don't top-post] >>> [Please avoid feeding the spammers - >>> http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIY

mounted drives

2008-06-20 Thread Michael F. Smith
I am sure you have probably heard this before as my research reveals that many have failed to get it to work. I am trying to use rsync from a linux server to get data from a windows XP that has a snap drive mounted as drive M:\ I am able to get the other files on the XP to copy fine, but I get

Re: setup.exe command line parameters

2008-06-20 Thread Ralph Hempel
cuicui wrote: You need to modify the "setup.ini" file, create "virtual" (empty) package that belongs to the "Base" category and make all the additional packages you want dependant of this virtual package by filling the "requires" field. Ok, so how do you keep the setup.ini from being downloade

Re: setup.exe needs package name selection filter

2008-06-20 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > And, observations about choosing a mirror being "annoying" don't really > help and likely illustrate some fundamental process misunderstanding. > What would you do if you didn't choose a mirror? Assume that the last > one you used was u

Re: what is the status of proftp for cygwin?

2008-06-20 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please don't commandeer existing threads when starting a new topic. According to Mike Marchywka on 6/20/2008 12:46 PM: | Hi, | I was looking for an ftp server to use with cygwin. First, let me say that I got an old | machine running windoze 2k pro an

Re: setup.exe needs package name selection filter

2008-06-20 Thread NightStrike
On 6/20/08, Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's definitely a good suggestion, quite possibly a great suggestion. > > However, having made it, it is now just going to sit there in the mail > archive for ever and ever and not ever do anything all by itself. > > I think the point that cg

Re: setup.exe needs package name selection filter

2008-06-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:46:35PM -0400, NightStrike wrote: >On 6/20/08, Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>It's definitely a good suggestion, quite possibly a great suggestion. >> >>However, having made it, it is now just going to sit there in the mail >>archive for ever and ever and not ever