RE: Installing VIM installs lots of other stuff

2013-05-10 Thread Rick Patterson
Hi. So, the issue seems to be the vim-common common component includes Perl, and Perl is bringing in all that other stuff. I see there was some discussion on the forums years ago about making this change. It appears that VIM can be built to interface to certain languages like Perl. This is a

Installing VIM installs lots of other stuff

2013-05-07 Thread Rick Patterson
Hello. I am wondering why installing VIm installs so many other things:  After doing a default install of Cgwin, and then not finding VIm, I added VIM to the install as well, but found it greatly increased my Cygwin install as follows. Dependencies listed to be installed: crypt libdb4.5

Get Couldn't canonicalise error using sftp and DOS target path, but source path ( scp) is okay.‏

2012-12-10 Thread Rick Patterson
Hello. When trying to sftp a file from one Cygwin machine to another via sftp, I get Couldn't canonicalise: No such file or directory. on a target directory in DOS format, unless I specify a cygdrive target path.  I do not get this error on the source directory, even though it is also in DOS