On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Morgan Gangwere 0.fracta...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 8:10 AM, wefwef wefwef fromble...@gmail.com wrote:
After using cygwin for years, and having some recent difficulty
installing, I took a look at the installer to actually try and
understand
All that said, the tone of the requester is not helping the setup
maintainer or the rest of the list really sympathize with his position.
His points wouldn't be so bad if he merely asked for features and
improvements rather than demand them and belittle the maintainers when
they disagree.
After using cygwin for years, and having some recent difficulty
installing, I took a look at the installer to actually try and
understand it (a novel concept I know!). Here are my thoughts on the
gui - I think it could be made considerably more user friendly with
some minor cosmetic changes.
This is what I did:
renamed my current cygwin install directory to fool setup.exe into
thinking it was a new installation
ran setup, selected download without installing, from ftp.fit.vutbr.cz
I left everything on default, and selected additionally vim, openssh,
7z, ping and rsync, by changing to
After using cygwin for years, and having some recent difficulty
installing, I took a look at the installer to actually try and
understand it (a novel concept I know!). Here are my thoughts on the
gui - I think it could be made considerably more user friendly with
some minor cosmetic changes.
The
Yes, I clicked the top left to change from default to install, so that
it would install everything that I had downloaded.
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Jason Pyeron jpye...@pdinc.us wrote:
-Original Message-
From: wefwef wefwef
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 5:22
Subject: Re: cygintl
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Dave Korn
dave.korn.cyg...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 05/04/2010 10:22, wefwef wefwef wrote:
This is what I did:
renamed my current cygwin install directory to fool setup.exe into
thinking it was a new installation
If you deliberately try and fool a piece
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Dave Korn
dave.korn.cyg...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 05/04/2010 13:43, wefwef wefwef wrote:
No, I was advised to do this to get round a nasty bug in the installer.
No, you were advised to do this to work around the fully correct behaviour
of the installer
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Dave Korn
dave.korn.cyg...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 05/04/2010 15:40, wefwef wefwef wrote:
Do you think it should pay attention to the existing installation when
it is downloading to an entirely different directory to create an
entirely separate installation
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Dave Korn
dave.korn.cyg...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 05/04/2010 16:04, wefwef wefwef wrote:
On 05/04/2010 15:40, wefwef wefwef wrote:
The cygwin setup program has some obvious gui design flaws - a two
year old can see that. It is a disaster from a usability
You also proposed adding a feature it already has, a column telling you
whether a package is already installed or not. This tells me that you are
not
calmly and dispassionately observing what is in front of your eyes.
It doesn't have a column dedicated for this purpose, that column is
You also proposed adding a feature it already has, a column telling you
whether a package is already installed or not. This tells me that you
are not
calmly and dispassionately observing what is in front of your eyes.
It doesn't have a column dedicated for this purpose, that column is
You also can't see obvious flaws that are right in front of your face,
even after they have been pointed out to you several times.
That's not true. You're complicating what could be a simple issue by
not providing the data that would allow us to fix any problem. And,
you're mixing so much
I have downloaded the cygwin with all the defaults, plus a few extra
packages to a local directory, then copied this to another machine and
installed. - (Thanks to those who helped to get a minimal install, it
is now 80 MB)
I am getting the error message: cygintl-8.dll was not found, when I
click
I am trying to do a minimal cygwin install plus vi, ssh, 7z, ping, and rsync.
The reason it has to be minimal is that I want to deploy it to several
pc's that don't have internet access - and are in a different country
(ie slow transfer) - to deploy the full 500mb default would be too
slow.
I
does anyone know of a way to download a single package and all it's
dependencies ?
I know the installer is supposed to be able to do this, but I've never
actually had it work in practice.
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PM, Jason Pyeron jpye...@pdinc.us wrote:
-Original Message-
From: wefwef wefwef
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 8:59
Subject: minimal installation
I am trying to do a minimal cygwin install plus vi, ssh, 7z,
ping, and rsync.
The reason it has to be minimal is that I want to deploy
What are you saying Jason, that a default installation plus the
packages mentioned is 27MB ? I'm asking, because it's not really clear
from your mail.
Yesterday I ran the installer and downloaded the defaults only - which
came to 501 MB.
Is it possible that the installer is getting confused by
No. It is not, if you run the install without changing any package selection
it
is: 60,058,633 bytes.
Then the installer has a bug because it was 501 MB when I did that. I
suspect it is getting confused by my existing cygwin installation.
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