Re: Cygwin convert environment paths

[Steven Penny via Cygwin]

> That's what cygpath is there for, among other things.

You expect people to use cygpath... from within PHP?
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Cygwin convert environment paths

[Steven Penny via Cygwin]

I see here:



That Cygwin does convert some environment variables, from Windows format to
Unix format. For example HOME and TMP. But for me at least, are some important
omissions.

I use APPDATA and PROGRAMFILES a good amount, and those arent converted. To make
it worse, HOMEDRIVE and SYSTEMDRIVE arent converted either, meaning you cant
manually construct the path starting with a variable. This causes some
problems. Take this example:

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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: binutils-2.34-2 (x86/x86_64)(Test)

[Steven Penny via Cygwin]

> The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:
>
> * binutils-2.34

Why is binutils still 24 MB?
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Re: Request package updates for Poppler, Subversion and Git

[Steven Penny via Cygwin]

> Will git contrib/subtree be in the next release? It's not in the latest
> version 2.21.0-1.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27109525/install-git-subtree-with-cygwin
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Re: Request for additional ming-w64 binaries

[Steven Penny via Cygwin]

> the following packages are missing static libraries, i.e *.a files

Cygwin has always been bad about this, and I dont see that changing. And if you
post an issue to the repo, it just gets closed:



best bet would be to look at these:






or build your own. Good luck.
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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: binutils-2.34+1git.de9c1b7cfe-1 (x86/x86_64)

[Steven Penny via Cygwin]

> The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:
>
> * binutils-2.34+1git.de9c1b7cfe
>
> This release should fix libtool shared library builds on 32bit Cygwin.

Below are the current "non Base" dependencies (and transitive dependencies) of
current "python3". As can be seen, "binutils" is now larger than all the other
dependencies combined.

Can we please, please address whatever exploded "binutils" size? Or perhaps once
and for all remove "binutils" as a dependency for "python3"? "binutils" is not
a runtime requirement for Python, only in the case where someone is utilizing
"ctypes", which one could argue is not a large enough percentage of users to
justify this.

25,016,180 binutils
 4,132 libcom_err2
92,524 libcrypt2
55,100 libexpat1
 3,964 libgdbm_compat4
21,896 libgdbm6
   102,828 libgssapi_krb5_2
73,344 libk5crypto3
   236,076 libkrb5_3
14,424 libkrb5support0
40,052 libnsl2
19,432 libpkgconf3
   470,540 libsqlite3_0
68,708 libtirpc3
 7,004 libtirpc-common
16,848 libuuid-devel
25,124 pkgconf
 5,972 pkg-config
   316 python3
 5,750,152 python36
 1,269,060 python-pip-wheel
   467,804 python-setuptools-wheel
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Cygwin 7z breaks symlinks

[Steven Penny via Cygwin]

If you try to use p7zip to create an archive with symlink:

7z a -snl c.tar a.txt b.txt

The symlink is broken:

$ 7z l -slt c.tar
[...]
Path = b.txt
Folder = -
Size = 5
Packed Size = 512
Modified = 2020-03-15 10:34:04
Mode = -rwxrwxrwx
User =
Group =
Symbolic Link =
Hard Link =

but if you use this version:



Then it works as expected:

$ 7z l -slt c.tar
[...]
Path = b.txt
Folder = -
Size = 5
Packed Size = 0
Modified = 2020-03-15 10:48:07
Mode = lrwxrwxrwx
User =
Group =
Symbolic Link = a.txt
Hard Link =

Note that I purposefully used an old version from the offical site, to match
the current Cygwin version.
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Re: setup release candidate - please test

[Steven Penny via cygwin]

On Mon, 8 May 2017 12:06:31, Jon Turney wrote:


A setup release candidate is available at:

   https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.878.x86.exe
   https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.878.x86_64.exe

Since this changes the way we download files, I think this can use some 
wider testing before release.


Please test and give feedback to cygwin@cygwin.com. If no regressions 
are discovered in the next few days, it will be promoted to release.


Looks good, but I still hate the last screen. The "Create Icons" screen. I do
not now or ever want to create these icons, but Cygwin asks me every single
time. So I must uncheck the boxes every single time.

Yes, I know I can just make a shortcut with the proper flags included, but why
should I? Setup already remembers via /etc/setup/setup.rc:

- last-action
- last-cache
- last-mirror
- mirrors-lst
- net-method

We should be able to add the icon preference to this list.


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