Re: How to remove a nirror from the cygwin set x86 64 mirrors list.

2016-10-29 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2016-10-29 17:51, Chris Johnson wrote: I added a bad url to the mirrors list in setup that lets you chose or add a mirror. It's a bad mirror and I want to remove it. It might be my inability to phrase it properly but I'm unable to find how to do this in the User manual, the FAQ, the archives

How to remove a nirror from the cygwin set x86 64 mirrors list.

2016-10-29 Thread Chris Johnson
I added a bad url to the mirrors list in setup that lets you chose or add a mirror. It's a bad mirror and I want to remove it. It might be my inability to phrase it properly but I'm unable to find how to do this in the User manual, the FAQ, the archives or the web. I'm running Win 7

[ANNOUNCEMENT] alure 1.2-1

2016-10-29 Thread Bastian Germann
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * alure-doc-1.2-1 * alure-utils-1.2-1 * libalure-devel-1.2-1 * libalure1-1.2-1 ALURE is a utility library to help manage common tasks with OpenAL applications. This includes device enumeration and initialization, file

alure 1.2-1

2016-10-29 Thread Bastian Germann
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * alure-doc-1.2-1 * alure-utils-1.2-1 * libalure-devel-1.2-1 * libalure1-1.2-1 ALURE is a utility library to help manage common tasks with OpenAL applications. This includes device enumeration and initialization, file

Command switches to remove categories of packages from an existing Cygwin installation

2016-10-29 Thread Keith Christian
While I use a few X11 packages, I find that I don't need the KDE or GNOME categories. Are the command line switches to remove KDE and GNOME the following? setup-x86.exe -c GNOME -c KDE Is there a setup-x86.exe switch to avoid downloading and installing GNOME and KDE categories so that a

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux starts to compete with Cygwin?

2016-10-29 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2016-10-29 00:13, L. A. Walsh wrote: Evgeny Grin wrote: Do you mean, that Windows itself is a problem? Or version 10 of Windows is a problem? Anyway, all Windows users will use Windows 10 (or successors) sooner or later. So it's only the beginning of the story. You haven't been keeping

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux starts to compete with Cygwin?

2016-10-29 Thread L. A. Walsh
Evgeny Grin wrote: A lot of? I don't know many... correction.. any GNU/Linux tools that works badly with \n newlines. --- All the tools in linux and current MacOS use 1 character to indicate end of line. It is only windows that has a problem. Is Cygwin still better for something?