> All that said, the tone of the requester is not helping the setup
> maintainer or the rest of the list really sympathize with his position.
> His points wouldn't be so bad if he merely asked for features and
> improvements rather than demand them and belittle the maintainers when
> they disagree
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Morgan Gangwere <0.fracta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 8:10 AM, wefwef wefwef wrote:
>>>> After using cygwin for years, and having some recent difficulty
>>>> installing, I took a look at the installer to actua
>> After using cygwin for years, and having some recent difficulty
>> installing, I took a look at the installer to actually try and
>> understand it (a novel concept I know!). Here are my thoughts on the
>> gui - I think it could be made considerably more user friendly with
>> some minor cosmetic
>>You also can't see obvious flaws that are right in front of your face,
>>even after they have been pointed out to you several times.
>
> That's not true. You're complicating what could be a simple issue by
> not providing the data that would allow us to fix any problem. And,
> you're mixing so
> You also proposed adding a feature it already has, a column telling you
> whether a package is already installed or not. This tells me that you
> are not
> calmly and dispassionately observing what is in front of your eyes.
It doesn't have a column dedicated for this purpo
>>> You also proposed adding a feature it already has, a column telling you
>>> whether a package is already installed or not. This tells me that you are
>>> not
>>> calmly and dispassionately observing what is in front of your eyes.
>> It doesn't have a column dedicated for this purpose, that c
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Dave Korn
wrote:
> On 05/04/2010 16:04, wefwef wefwef wrote:
>
>>> On 05/04/2010 15:40, wefwef wefwef wrote:
>
>>>> The cygwin setup program has some obvious gui design flaws - a two
>>>> year old can see that. It is a di
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Dave Korn
wrote:
> On 05/04/2010 15:40, wefwef wefwef wrote:
>
>> Do you think it should pay attention to the existing installation when
>> it is downloading to an entirely different directory to create an
>> entirely separate installat
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Dave Korn
wrote:
> On 05/04/2010 13:43, wefwef wefwef wrote:
>
>> No, I was advised to do this to get round a nasty bug in the installer.
>
> No, you were advised to do this to work around the fully correct behaviour
> of the installer in that
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Dave Korn
wrote:
> On 05/04/2010 10:22, wefwef wefwef wrote:
>> This is what I did:
>> renamed my current cygwin install directory to fool setup.exe into
>> thinking it was a new installation
>
> If you deliberately try and fool a piece
Yes, I clicked the top left to change from default to install, so that
it would install everything that I had downloaded.
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote:
>> -Original Message-
>> From: wefwef wefwef
>> Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 5:22
>> Su
After using cygwin for years, and having some recent difficulty
installing, I took a look at the installer to actually try and
understand it (a novel concept I know!). Here are my thoughts on the
gui - I think it could be made considerably more user friendly with
some minor cosmetic changes.
The V
This is what I did:
renamed my current cygwin install directory to fool setup.exe into
thinking it was a new installation
ran setup, selected download without installing, from ftp.fit.vutbr.cz
I left everything on default, and selected additionally vim, openssh,
7z, ping and rsync, by changing to t
I have downloaded the cygwin with all the defaults, plus a few extra
packages to a local directory, then copied this to another machine and
installed. - (Thanks to those who helped to get a minimal install, it
is now 80 MB)
I am getting the error message: cygintl-8.dll was not found, when I
click
> No. It is not, if you run the install without changing any package selection
> it
> is: 60,058,633 bytes.
Then the installer has a bug because it was 501 MB when I did that. I
suspect it is getting confused by my existing cygwin installation.
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Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problem
What are you saying Jason, that a default installation plus the
packages mentioned is 27MB ? I'm asking, because it's not really clear
from your mail.
Yesterday I ran the installer and downloaded the defaults only - which
came to 501 MB.
Is it possible that the installer is getting confused by my
Apr 2, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote:
>
>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: wefwef wefwef
>> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 8:59
>> Subject: minimal installation
>>
>> I am trying to do a minimal cygwin install plus vi, ssh, 7z,
>> ping
does anyone know of a way to download a single package and all it's
dependencies ?
I know the installer is supposed to be able to do this, but I've never
actually had it work in practice.
--
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Docum
I am trying to do a minimal cygwin install plus vi, ssh, 7z, ping, and rsync.
The reason it has to be minimal is that I want to deploy it to several
pc's that don't have internet access - and are in a different country
(ie slow transfer) - to deploy the full 500mb default would be too
slow.
I hav
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