Re: setup.exe sucks

2005-01-12 Thread Dario Alcocer
Christopher Faylor wrote: I'm not as concerned about the package management as I am about the UI, actually. If we don't have a good UI for initial install, then the initial user experience is still going to be painful. You may want to take a look at my pre-release RPM distribution I did back in

Berkeley db-4.3 is released, gentle headsup for the Cygwin db package maintainers.

2005-01-12 Thread Max Bowsher
Berkeley db-4.3 has been released. I'm in no hurry to use it for the official Cygwin subversion packages, but it would be nice if it could join the Cygwin distribution at some point in the next 6 months or so. Thanks, Max.

Re: Berkeley db-4.3 is released, gentle headsup for the Cygwin db package maintainers.

2005-01-12 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Max Bowsher wrote: Berkeley db-4.3 has been released. I'm in no hurry to use it for the official Cygwin subversion packages, but it would be nice if it could join the Cygwin distribution at some point in the next 6 months or so. ;) Yep, I'll try to make a package ready the next days. Gerrit --

Re: Berkeley db-4.3 is released, gentle headsup for the Cygwin db package maintainers.

2005-01-12 Thread Max Bowsher
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Max Bowsher wrote: Berkeley db-4.3 has been released. I'm in no hurry to use it for the official Cygwin subversion packages, but it would be nice if it could join the Cygwin distribution at some point in the next 6 months or so. ;) Yep, I'll try to make a package ready the

antlr for cygwin - sorry, URL has changed

2005-01-12 Thread wolfgang haefelinger
Hi, I'm very sorry but URL sent earlier this day is wrong now ( due to server problems I had to upload again). Package should be downable from http://www.antlr.org/share/1105550605023/antlr-2.7.5-1.cygwin.tgzFile or checkout http://www.antlr.org or sent me an email that you can't fetch

epstool 3.07 packaged for cygwin

2005-01-12 Thread antiskid56-cygwin
Hi, Since I announced my intention to package epstool 3.06, upstream released 3.07. I have uploaded binary and source packages for 3.07, as well as proposed setup.hint, to ftp://antiskid.homelinux.net/pub I checked that the binary runs fine, the documentation is properly installed, the binary

Re: antlr for cygwin - sorry, URL has changed

2005-01-12 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
wolfgang haefelinger wrote: Hi, I'm very sorry but URL sent earlier this day is wrong now ( due to server problems I had to upload again). Package should be downable from http://www.antlr.org/share/1105550605023/antlr-2.7.5-1.cygwin.tgz or checkout http://www.antlr.org Binary tarball: The

Re: [test] base-files 3.2

2005-01-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 10:08:08PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 09:29:51PM -, John Morrison wrote: Given my track record so far, Bah, given the amount of threads you participate in I think you are being too hard on yourself! I think it would be best if someone

Re: [test] base-files 3.2

2005-01-12 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 10:08:08PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 09:29:51PM -, John Morrison wrote: Given my track record so far, Bah, given the amount of threads you participate in I think you are being too hard on yourself! I

RE: antlr for cygwin - sorry, URL has changed

2005-01-12 Thread wolfgang haefelinger
Hi Gerrit, The usr/ prefix is missing in the binary tarball, it should extract to usr/bin, usr/share, ... Ok, will redo. ./configure looks somewhat strange: $ ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-javac=/usr/bin/gcj --disable-examples Do you mind about --prefix=/usr ??? I used option

fortune-1.99.1

2005-01-12 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
A new version of fortune, based on the debian 1.99.1-1 release is available at: http://www.efn.org/~sthoenna/fortune-1.99.1-1.tar.bz2 http://www.efn.org/~sthoenna/fortune-1.99.1-1-src.tar.bz2 http://www.efn.org/~sthoenna/setup.hint Setup hint: sdesc: Print a random, hopefully interesting,

Re: epstool 3.07 packaged for cygwin

2005-01-12 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
antiskid56-cygwin writes: Hi, Since I announced my intention to package epstool 3.06, upstream released 3.07. I have uploaded binary and source packages for 3.07, as well as proposed setup.hint, to ftp://antiskid.homelinux.net/pub I checked that the binary runs