new cygwin setup

2001-11-26 Thread Jeff Mincy
I have the following comments about the new cygwin setup 1) The new 'View' {category, full, partial} is a nice organizational feature. Thanks. 2) a) Move the view label closer to the view button. The label is floating off to the side and doesn't appear to be connected.

Re: Cygwin setup

2001-11-16 Thread Brian Keener
H.Merijn Brand wrote: > Any chance in making the next version of the setup program having "Partial" as > default view (please) > Once we change setup to save the responses from the last time it was run - you will have what you want - it would always show partial first (I would think) if that was

RE: about cygwin setup

2001-11-16 Thread Khoa Do
I would suggest something like what you said with the user being able to pick up more than one configurations with only one snapshot per configuration. If that was too difficult, then maybe just a preset set of configurations with the user only able to pick one. If the user wanted to go

Re: cygwin setup

2001-11-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 06:04:34PM +0100, H.Merijn Brand wrote: >Any chance in making the next version of the setup program having "Partial" as >default view (please) No. Just click on the "View" button. It's not that hard. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simpl

Cygwin setup

2001-11-16 Thread H . Merijn Brand
Any chance in making the next version of the setup program having "Partial" as default view (please) -- H.Merijn BrandAmsterdam Perl Mongers (http://www.amsterdam.pm.org/) using perl-5.6.1, 5.7.2 & 630 on HP-UX 10.20 & 11.00, AIX 4.2, AIX 4.3, WinNT 4, Win2K pro & WinCE 2.11. Smoking perl

Re: about cygwin setup

2001-11-16 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 12:26 AM 11/16/2001, Robert Collins wrote: >=== > >Rob > >Thanks for the suggestions and I did finally check the archives. I >think I agree with Ralf Habacker that there should be preset >configurations >that we can just click to install on a "new" machine. I would wish for >some >preset con

Re: about cygwin setup

2001-11-15 Thread Robert Collins
=== >Rob Thanks for the suggestions and I did finally check the archives. I think I agree with Ralf Habacker that there should be preset configurations that we can just click to install on a "new" machine. I would wish for some preset configurations like: SELECT ONE OR MORE CONFIGURATIONS AND

RE: about cygwin setup

2001-11-15 Thread Khoa Do
>Use the prev/curr/exp radio buttons at the top of the setup.exe screen to toggle all currently installed >packages between prev/curr/exp versions. As for getting the source for everything, I've added that to the >wishlist. Finally, installing "everything" does not make sense - see the list archi

Re: about cygwin setup

2001-11-15 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Khoa Do" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 1:17 PM Subject: about cygwin setup ... > Heck, I want an automatic feed if I can help it. Where is the source to >

about cygwin setup

2001-11-15 Thread Khoa Do
I have a comment about setup.exe. How come you don't have an option to download everything including the source for all the packages that is being offered? I just want the latest version of everything including the source. When I first started setup.exe, I thought that I would be able t

Cygwin Setup

2001-10-20 Thread Carlos de Sousa
Hi! I'm running setup.exe 2.78.2.13, I'm a little frustrated over the fact that the only information not saved between invocations is the proxy server setting and the port number. As I normally run behind a FW, I need to fill in that information every time. Any reason for that, or is my ini fi

Re: Cygwin Setup 2.54

2001-05-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 09:49:12AM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >> On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 09:24:02PM -0400, Charles S. Wilson wrote: >> >"Fred T. Hamster" wrote: >> >> is the official installation process now involving a bunch of registry >> >> edits before cygwin ca

RE: Cygwin Setup 2.54

2001-05-29 Thread Jean-Charles Meyrignac
>Don't you find it strange that the people that are having problems are the ones that are deleting their previous installation? The workaround to this problem is don't delete your current installation, just use setup with the current installation. Wrong ! I had the problem with my first install

Re: Cygwin Setup 2.54

2001-05-29 Thread Earnie Boyd
Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 09:24:02PM -0400, Charles S. Wilson wrote: > >"Fred T. Hamster" wrote: > >> is the official installation process now involving a bunch of registry > >> edits before cygwin can be installed again, or is this setup program > >> actually quite

Re: Cygwin Setup 2.54

2001-05-27 Thread Travis Howell
> > I had downloaded all the Cygwin setup binary tarballs to > > just one directory and launched setup from there. The reason I choose to > > reinstall was all the Cygwin setup binary tarballs showed up as new again. > > > Did you do setup to do the Download from th

Re: Cygwin Setup 2.54

2001-05-27 Thread Brian Keener
Travis Howell wrote: > I had downloaded all the Cygwin setup binary tarballs to > just one directory and launched setup from there. The reason I choose to > reinstall was all the Cygwin setup binary tarballs showed up as new again. > Did you do setup to do the Download from the int

Re: Cygwin Setup 2.54

2001-05-27 Thread Brian Keener
Christopher Faylor wrote: > I don't know what you are asking. I don't use the "cygpath" program in > setup.exe. Your right - that question was way to long and ran on way to much - sorry. What I was referring to was the recent change to setup for mount points and paths as seen here from the Ch

Re: Cygwin Setup 2.54

2001-05-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
Please check out the project web page for links to available information and ports: http://cygwin.com/ . If you don't see what you need there, then the cygwin mailing list is the best place to make observations or get questions answered. Information on the mailing list is available at the projec

Re: Cygwin Setup 2.54

2001-05-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 09:24:02PM -0400, Charles S. Wilson wrote: >"Fred T. Hamster" wrote: >> is the official installation process now involving a bunch of registry >> edits before cygwin can be installed again, or is this setup program >> actually quite busted? > >It appears that the new setu

Re: Cygwin Setup 2.54

2001-05-26 Thread Charles S. Wilson
"Fred T. Hamster" wrote: > is the official installation process now involving a bunch of registry > edits before cygwin can be installed again, or is this setup program > actually quite busted? It appears that the new setup program is not operating correctly for SOME users. This may be because

Re: Cygwin Setup 2.54

2001-05-26 Thread Travis Howell
The first attempt to install Cygwin using the 2.54 setup was over an exisitng install, I had downloaded all the Cygwin setup binary tarballs to just one directory and launched setup from there. The reason I choose to reinstall was all the Cygwin setup binary tarballs showed up as new again. The

Re: Cygwin Setup 2.54

2001-05-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 04:04:54PM -0400, Brian Keener wrote: >Travis, > >Are these clean installs that you are doing or are you upgrading an existing >installation. Also if you are upgrading are you making sure the packages you >do not want to instal are set to 'keep'. > >Really need to know

Re: Cygwin Setup 2.54

2001-05-26 Thread Norberto Alfredo Bensa
I have found problems too installing xpm-4.0.0-2.tar.gz 0s||o_|/j|/usr/include/simx.h and... unable to create symlink "0s"#o_#"/j#/usr/include/simx.h" -> "X11/simx.h" (replace # by random characters above ascii 128) It said something similar when unpacking vim. At first I thought that th

Re: Cygwin Setup 2.54

2001-05-26 Thread Fred T. Hamster
i have also found the 2.54 version of setup to behave very brokenly. i wiped out the entire directory where cygwin used to live in order to do a clean install using the new setup.exe. i got a partial installation... only a few programs showed up in the bin directory, with a bunch of other

Re: Cygwin Setup 2.54

2001-05-26 Thread Brian Keener
Travis, Are these clean installs that you are doing or are you upgrading an existing installation. Also if you are upgrading are you making sure the packages you do not want to instal are set to 'keep'. Really need to know if this is a new install or and upgrade to pursue this further. Ch

Re: Cygwin Setup 2.54

2001-05-26 Thread Travis Howell
This just gets weirder and weirder... I wipped out extra Cygwin installation that was created and main Cygwin registry keys then attempted another install, this time it created an openssh directory in the directory where all the Cygwin setup tarballs are and installed everything in there. I am

Cygwin Setup 2.54

2001-05-26 Thread Travis Howell
I was just wondering if anyone else had serious problem with new Cygwin setup 2.54 ? I downloaded copy, selected Install from local directory, C:\Files\ at the local packages directory, C:\Cygwin\ as the install directory with a unix text type and install for all users. The first time it

Re: some more questions :cygwin setup failed

2001-04-14 Thread Dennis Wilson
installation. - Original Message - From: rahul toley To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 11:00 AM Subject: some more questions :cygwin setup failed Hi Gerrit, Thanks for your help and explanation. I used setup.exe to install cygwin . Still the shell gets

Re: some more questions :cygwin setup failed

2001-04-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
FYI, this mail is totally incomprehensible. Please make some effort to format it correctly if you want people to help you. cgf On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 11:00:50AM -0700, rahul toley wrote: >Hi Gerrit,Thanks for your help and explanation. I used setup.exe to install cygwin . >Still the shell ge

some more questions :cygwin setup failed

2001-04-14 Thread rahul toley
Hi Gerrit, Thanks for your help and explanation. I used setup.exe to install cygwin . Still the shell gets killed . If I try to open the cygwin.dat(under C:\cygwin directory) file , it opens as a shell with title "Finished - cygwin" the prompt itself shows "bad command or filename" . If I try t

Re: Cygwin setup problem

2001-02-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 03:02:54PM +0200, Javor Nikolov wrote: >cygwin's setup doesn't work without a mouse! Go to your cellar and sprinkle corn flakes around the foundation. Make a trail from the cellar to your computer. If you're like me, you'll have lots of mice. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe

Cygwin setup problem

2001-02-26 Thread Javor Nikolov
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Re: Cygwin setup program minor bug

2001-01-17 Thread Gerrit Peter Haase
Maxim Friedental schrieb: > > Hello! > > When clicking below the list of packages to install, the program fails. > > How to reproduce: setup.exe, Next, Install from local directory, Next, Next, > Next, scroll till bottom of list and click below the > last line. Yes, for me on win98 today, i

Cygwin setup program minor bug

2001-01-16 Thread Maxim Friedental
Hello! When clicking below the list of packages to install, the program fails. How to reproduce: setup.exe, Next, Install from local directory, Next, Next, Next, scroll till bottom of list and click below the last line. Thanks. With best regards, Maxim Friedental. -- Want to unsubscribe fro

Re: cygwin setup

2000-12-26 Thread etoffi
DJ Delorie writes: > > also, is there any interest to use (real) packages in cygwin? > > There was, until we added .tar.gz support to setup :-) > > Seriously, people have talked about RPM, but until someone decides to > actually *do* something, tarballs remain the standard "package" format > f

Re: cygwin setup

2000-12-26 Thread DJ Delorie
> hopefully this doesnt turn out to be a silly question, but is the source > for the setup utility available? Yes. Get the cygwin sources, and it's in src/winsup/cinstall. > also, is there any interest to use (real) packages in cygwin? There was, until we added .tar.gz support to setup :-) S

cygwin setup

2000-12-26 Thread etoffi
hopefully this doesnt turn out to be a silly question, but is the source for the setup utility available? also, is there any interest to use (real) packages in cygwin? -- etoffi -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

cygwin setup

2000-11-22 Thread McNulty Junior Bobby
No complaints, really. At 6:35 pm central, Wednesday 22, still trying to download Cygwin tools to redo my archine, inetutls refused to DL. Was someone replacing it was I was trying to download it? Guess we'll never know. ftp.sunsite.utk.edu was the site. Really, this tennessee site is the only one