Re: Fortune and the "fortune startrek" command

2010-06-22 Thread Alexander T
ciative answer to someones positive and frankly quite cheerful question. On 6/22/10, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 07:40:50PM +0200, Alexander T wrote: >>On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:35:30AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>You're exaggerating. Most of t

Re: Fortune and the "fortune startrek" command

2010-06-22 Thread Alexander T
> You're exaggerating. Most of the time when maintainers receive private > email they redirect it to this list with a polite request to keep the > discussion public. There is no "head handing". O RLY? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin

Re: 'cp' utility bug when .exe file exist.

2010-06-09 Thread Alexander T
Why not just do the exe magic for executing the files only? When opening, stating, copying, moving etc, you could leave it out. This seems the most reasonable compromise to me, but there could of course be cases which I am overseeing, but I wouldn't expect any script to rely on exe magic when openi

Re: bug report: cygwin 1.7.5, perl *** fatal error TP_NUM_W_BUFS too smal

2010-06-08 Thread Alexander T
Err, 'very deep' was a bit misleading, the error seemed to show up at 2-3 levels according to the last post in that thread. On 6/8/10, Alexander T wrote: > There is a similar post from 2009 where the conclusion is that this > can be caused by very deep forking > (http:/

Re: bug report: cygwin 1.7.5, perl *** fatal error TP_NUM_W_BUFS too smal

2010-06-08 Thread Alexander T
There is a similar post from 2009 where the conclusion is that this can be caused by very deep forking (http://readlist.com/lists/cygwin.com/cygwin/6/34359.html). Is it possible that the make script does very deep, or is stuck in infinite, recursion? On 6/8/10, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote: > On 6/7/20

Anyone interrested in a package manager?

2010-05-14 Thread Alexander T
Hi All, I've read the mailing lists and found some posts back in 2003 talking about porting apt to cygwin. I'm going crazy needing to use the installer every time I forgot to install a program, and also dealing with version upgrades and conflicting versions. The installer.exe is also clunky when