RE: units issues

2017-05-24 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Brian Inglis sent the following at Tuesday, May 23, 2017 10:37 PM > >On 2017-05-23 17:55, Doug Henderson wrote: > >> On 23 May 2017 at 15:49, Brian Inglis wrote: >> >>> Updating the currencies only when setup is run seems to me to be >>> insufficient if users want to use current currency

RE: [ITA] cygwin-doc

2015-03-13 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Jon TURNEY wrote on March 13, 2015 10:29 AM As invited [1], I shall adopt the cygwin-doc package. https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-02/msg00163.html Thanks, - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.

Obsolete Packages in Requires Lines

2013-11-12 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Please excuse me if this is the wrong list for this topic. Inspired by my experience with that EXCELLENT new package, cygcheck-dep, I tried cleaning cruft in my installation of cygwin by uninstalling packages in the _obsolete category. Setup reported that a number of them were required by other

RE: [GOLDSTAR] Re: [PATCH] setup: allow running as non-admin

2013-11-09 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Saturday, November 09, 2013 5:20 AM Maybe I'm dense but I don't quite understand it. Under 32 bit, a tool called setup-foo will be recognized as an installer binary. Therefore the helpful UAC installer recognition will try to start setup-x86 as an installer

RE: [PATCH 2/2 rebase] Handle CPAN/etc. DLLs in rebaseall

2013-02-13 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Yaakov sent the following at Monday, February 11, 2013 11:32 PM Please leave it in; PHP is a fairly popular offering in Ports (at least according to my blog stats), and probably should be moved into the distro already. Please! :-)

RE: [ITP] doxygen-1.8.0-2 -- A documentation system for C++, C, Java, Objective-C, IDL (Corba and Microsoft flavors) and to some extent PHP, C#, and D.

2012-10-03 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
David Stacey sent the following at Tuesday, October 02, 2012 3:11 PM http://cygwin.com/setup.html#submitting Package acceptation ^^^ Might acceptance be a better word? http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/acceptation (I originally thought that acceptation isn't an English word, but it

Setup copyright notice

2012-02-21 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
The latest version of setup (2.764) lists copyright 2000-2011. Should 2011 be changed to 2012? Best wishes, - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.

RE: setup.exe -s (--site) option not working

2012-01-21 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
David King sent the following at Friday, January 20, 2012 8:33 AM On Jan 18, 2012, at 12:21 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: David King sent the following at Tuesday, January 17, 2012 10:14 PM cygwin install, version 2.763 I created a batch file to auto install cygwin with some

RE: setup.exe -s (--site) option not working

2012-01-18 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
David King sent the following at Tuesday, January 17, 2012 10:14 PM cygwin install, version 2.763 I created a batch file to auto install cygwin with some packages (see below). When I run the batch file from a command prompt, it just outputs getUrlToStream failed multiple times before it ends. If

RE: ssh through Cisco VPN problem

2011-11-04 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Charles Stepp sent the following at Friday, November 04, 2011 10:15 AM Does anyone have any idea why the openssh in cygwin (latest) would not connect through a Cisco vpn, but putty and virtualboxed Fedora's ssh would have no problem? Cygwin's ssh works fine at work, not using the vpn. I'll include

RE: [ITP] nosleep 0.1.3-1

2011-09-28 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
On 9/25/2011 6:15 AM, Andrew Schulman wrote: nosleep has been written originally for Cygwin, so it's not available in any Linux distros and needs to be voted on. Just wondering ... Since nosleep has been written originally for Cygwin, might it make sense to add this to cygutils (A collection

RE: 256x256 px icons

2011-07-29 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Warren Young sent the following at Friday, July 29, 2011 10:12 AM http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/logo/glowing.ico http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/logo/logo-glowing.ico

RE: setup and mintty (was Re: New setup.exe release?)

2011-05-23 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Christopher Faylor sent the following at Monday, May 23, 2011 1:26 PM Maybe we should be looking into introducing a way to set the CYGWIN environment variable in the global environment and adding c:\cygwin\bin (or whatever) to the global PATH as well.

RE: Up for new maintainer - base-files and base-passwd

2010-09-14 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Since so little is in the base-cygwin and base-passwd packages, might it make sense to fold them into base-files? - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.

RE: Packages keep being installed again

2010-01-15 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Thomas Wolff sent the following at Friday, January 15, 2010 4:55 AM A few packages keep showing up in my setup for installation and are installed again every time even though they have been installed already; currently it's: glib lapack I also get tetex

singular-icons: possible packaging error?

2009-12-30 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
The singular-icons package contains the following file in both versions 3.0.3-1 and 3.1.0-1. /usr/lib/Singular/cygwin-setup.exe I point this out since it seems strange to me and I wonder whether it might be a mistake. I apologized for wasting bandwidth if it is not an error. Thanks, -

RE: Save and restore setup.exe window geometry attempt #2

2009-05-22 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Christopher Faylor wrote on Thursday, May 21, 2009 1:42 PM: On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 01:11:11PM -0400, Jonathon Merz wrote: On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:23:36AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: That doesn't sound

RE: Cygwin setup.exe - command line parameters

2009-03-03 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Ralph Hempel wrote on Tuesday, March 03, 2009 11:49 AM: Quick show of hands - how many people are still using 9x? I stall have 98se on my home machine, but I almost never use cygwin on it. I can live without cygwin on it, and I can handle a gui. Perhaps the real question is the number of

RE: please add a find-the-fastest-mirror-automatically feature to setup.exe

2008-05-28 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Jason Spiro wrote on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:38 AM: Cc'ing the hackers of the Ubuntu software-properties app. 2008/5/23 Chris Sutcliffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason Spiro wrote: [Cygwin] Setup.exe is a great tool, but could you please add a find-the-fastest-mirror-automatically

Typo in setup.hint of csih

2008-03-11 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
category: Util This creates a new category, of which csih is the only package. It probably should be Utils. - Barry - Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.

RE: [ITP] txt2regex-0.8 -- A Regular Expression wizard, all written with bash2 builtins

2008-03-03 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Jari Aalto (Cygwin-bug#20080303T1357) wrote on Monday, March 03, 2008 9:02 AM: Included in Debain stable: http://packages.debian.org/txt2regex Jari sdesc: A Regular Expression wizard, all written with bash2 builtins ldesc: A program that converts human sentences to RegExs. With a

RE: [ITP] colordiff-1.0.7

2008-02-21 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Kostya Altukhov wrote on Thursday, February 21, 2008 6:55 AM: requires: cygwin perl ldesc:A wrapper for the diff command. If this is a wrapper to diff, shouldn't it require diffutils? (Please excuse me if this is terribly naïve.) Thanks for packaging this. I'm looking forward to having

RE: Updated: ttcp-20071212-1 -- Network benchmarking tool

2007-12-18 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Wrong list? (Top posted on purpose, since there's no need to read the content.) Jari Aalto wrote on Wednesday, December 12, 2007 3:48 PM: PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://www.netcordia.com/resources/tools.asp License : GPL Network throughput testing tool. It can

RE: Updated: epstool 3.08-2 -- edit preview images and fix bounding boxes in EPS files

2007-12-18 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Wrong list? (Top posted on purpose, since there's no need to read the content.) Jari Aalto wrote on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 10:22 AM: PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/epstool.htm License : GPL Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files

setup.ini (presumably setup.htnt) for man

2006-11-08 Thread Buchbinder, Barry \(NIH/NIAID\) [E]
bash is on the requires line twice.

fortune-1.99.1-2

2006-09-11 Thread Buchbinder, Barry \(NIH/NIAID\) [E]
http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-apps/2006-01/msg00113.html Is it time to remove the test designation? - Barry

FYI: un/zip update available

2006-08-28 Thread Buchbinder, Barry \(NIH/NIAID\) [E]
I do not meaning to bug the maintainer, request an update, or imply that the maintainer is not paying attention to the canonical site, but in case the maintainer just hasn't noticed ... http://www.info-zip.org/: - Zip 2.32 was released on 20 June 2006. http://www.info-zip.org/Zip.html:

RE: [ITP] gt5-1.3 -- A terminal program to show disk usage and navigate between directories

2006-02-17 Thread Buchbinder, Barry \(NIH/NIAID\) [E]
Jari Aalto wrote: requires: cygwin lynx The author says that links is better than lynx. http://gt5.sourceforge.net/browsers.html Is there a reason that you prefer lynx? Thanks for offering this. - Barry