[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygport-0.12.1-1

I have just released cygport-0.12.1 for the Cygwin distributions and the Fedora Cygwin repository. This release adds several fixes for "crossback" scenarios (e.g. building an i686-cygwin sysrooted package on i686-cygwin for use on x86_64-cygwin). Changes in this release (7): prepstrip:

Re: Installing VIM installs lots of other stuff

On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 10:37:34AM -0600, Daniel Jensen wrote: >You'll note, however, that for most distros Perl doesn't depend on >openssl, libssp, etc. > >Also, including extra optional stuff as dependencies is considerably >more acceptable when you're installing a primary OS. We expect a Fedor

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mingw64-*-zlib-1.2.8-1

The following package have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** mingw64-i686-minizip-1.2.8-1 *** mingw64-i686-zlib-1.2.8-1 *** mingw64-x86_64-minizip-1.2.8-1 *** mingw64-x86_64-zlib-1.2.8-1 This package is intended to be used in conjunction with the *-w64-mingw32 toolchains to create nat

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: ascii-3.12-1

The following package has been updated for the Cygwin distribution: *** ascii-3.12-1 The ascii utility provides easy conversion between various byte representations and the ASCII character table. It knows about a wide variety of hex, binary, octal, Teletype mnemonic, ISO/ECMA code point, slan

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: check-0.9.10-1

The following package has been updated for the Cygwin distribution: *** check-0.9.10-1 Check is a unit test framework for C. This is an update to the latest upstream version. Yaakov CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin

RE: Installing VIM installs lots of other stuff

You'll note, however, that for most distros Perl doesn't depend on openssl, libssp, etc. Also, including extra optional stuff as dependencies is considerably more acceptable when you're installing a primary OS. We expect a Fedora or Arch install to need 10GB and daily security updates. That's