Re: fontconfig cache missing TeX fonts and non-MS Windows fonts

2024-09-21 Thread Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps
OpenType or TrueType fonts installed under /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/{open,true}type/, non-'Microsoft Corp' Windows fonts including those labelled 'Microsoft supplied font', .TTF, .ttc, and .ot[cf], but does cache those in the Windows/Fonts/Deleted subdirectory. For the font

Re: fontconfig cache missing TeX fonts and non-MS Windows fonts

2024-09-21 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps
/texmf-dist/fonts/{open,true}type/, non-'Microsoft Corp' Windows fonts including those labelled 'Microsoft supplied font', .TTF, .ttc, and .ot[cf], but does cache those in the Windows/Fonts/Deleted subdirectory. For the fonts that come with TeX Live, I thought it should be up to

Re: fontconfig cache missing TeX fonts and non-MS Windows fonts

2024-09-20 Thread Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps
Corp' Windows fonts including those labelled 'Microsoft supplied font', .TTF, .ttc, and .ot[cf], but does cache those in the Windows/Fonts/Deleted subdirectory. I run the attached permanent postinstall local script to pick up all those fonts the official script does not, clean up old br

fontconfig cache missing TeX fonts and non-MS Windows fonts

2024-09-20 Thread Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps
Hi folks, I recently reviewed all the fonts installed on my system and found that fontconfig cache does not include TeX OpenType or TrueType fonts installed under /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/{open,true}type/, non-'Microsoft Corp' Windows fonts including those labelled 'Microsof

Re: [PATCH setup] Show a MessageBox warning if running on a deprecated Windows version

2022-01-24 Thread Jon Turney
On 18/01/2022 16:15, Jon Turney wrote: On 14/01/2022 09:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 13 15:13, Jon Turney wrote: Show a MessageBox warning if we are running on a Windows version which we have deprecated Cygwin support for: [..] Question is, how often should setup show this message

Re: [PATCH setup] Show a MessageBox warning if running on a deprecated Windows version

2022-01-18 Thread Jon Turney
On 14/01/2022 09:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 13 15:13, Jon Turney wrote: Show a MessageBox warning if we are running on a Windows version which we have deprecated Cygwin support for: - Windows 6.0 (Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008) - 32-bit Windows This warning can be disabled with

Re: [PATCH setup] Show a MessageBox warning if running on a deprecated Windows version

2022-01-17 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2022-01-17 03:03, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 16 17:55, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: This reminds me: It's probably useful for me to support 32-bit even after Cygwin no longer does for my commercial project(s). Which probably means I should release said package soon (I couldn't get the re

Re: [PATCH setup] Show a MessageBox warning if running on a deprecated Windows version

2022-01-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 16 17:55, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: > This reminds me: It's probably useful for me to support 32-bit even after > Cygwin no longer does for my commercial project(s). Which probably means I > should release said package soon (I couldn't get the rebase to work on > 32-bit before, will ask

Re: [PATCH setup] Show a MessageBox warning if running on a deprecated Windows version

2022-01-16 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
Windows version which we have deprecated Cygwin support for: - Windows 6.0 (Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008) - 32-bit Windows This warning can be disabled with '--allow-unsupported-windows'. --- Notes: Not sure if this is needed, or maybe this is just annoying to the ~3% of use

Re: [PATCH setup] Show a MessageBox warning if running on a deprecated Windows version

2022-01-16 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 12:45:06PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 14 10:54, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Jan 2022 at 09:05, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > On Jan 13 15:13, Jon Turney wrote: > > > > Show a MessageBox warning if we are running on a Wi

Re: [PATCH setup] Show a MessageBox warning if running on a deprecated Windows version

2022-01-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 14 10:54, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jan 2022 at 09:05, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Jan 13 15:13, Jon Turney wrote: > > > Show a MessageBox warning if we are running on a Windows version which > > > we have deprecated Cygwin support for: > > >

Re: [PATCH setup] Show a MessageBox warning if running on a deprecated Windows version

2022-01-14 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On Fri, 14 Jan 2022 at 09:05, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 13 15:13, Jon Turney wrote: > > Show a MessageBox warning if we are running on a Windows version which > > we have deprecated Cygwin support for: > > > > - Windows 6.0 (Windows Vista, Windows Server

Re: [PATCH setup] Show a MessageBox warning if running on a deprecated Windows version

2022-01-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 13 15:13, Jon Turney wrote: > Show a MessageBox warning if we are running on a Windows version which > we have deprecated Cygwin support for: > > - Windows 6.0 (Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008) > - 32-bit Windows > > This warning can be disabled with '-

[PATCH setup] Show a MessageBox warning if running on a deprecated Windows version

2022-01-13 Thread Jon Turney
Show a MessageBox warning if we are running on a Windows version which we have deprecated Cygwin support for: - Windows 6.0 (Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008) - 32-bit Windows This warning can be disabled with '--allow-unsupported-windows'. --- Notes: Not sure if this is needed

Re: Quick query about Windows versions

2020-04-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
t; > Just thought I should ask: is there a perferred version of Windows to > > > > > build packages on, or does it not matter? > > > > Whatever supported version of Windows you use, I'd say. > > > > > > > > > I currently build on Windows

Re: Quick query about Windows versions

2020-04-01 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin-apps
On 01/04/2020 10:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > None at all. Right now we still support all versions since Windows > Vista, so any breakage building stuff on these systems is the fault > of the Cygwin core. Other than that, Achim is right, of course :) > > > Corinna I'

Re: Quick query about Windows versions

2020-04-01 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 01.04.2020 um 11:36 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: On Mar 31 18:58, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin-apps wrote: On 31/03/2020 17:24, ASSI wrote: Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin-apps writes: Just thought I should ask: is there a perferred version of Windows to build packages on, or does it

Re: Quick query about Windows versions

2020-04-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 31 18:58, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin-apps wrote: > On 31/03/2020 17:24, ASSI wrote: > > Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin-apps writes: > >> Just thought I should ask: is there a perferred version of Windows to > >> build packages on, or does it not mat

Re: Quick query about Windows versions

2020-03-31 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin-apps
On 31/03/2020 17:24, ASSI wrote: > Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin-apps writes: >> Just thought I should ask: is there a perferred version of Windows to >> build packages on, or does it not matter? > Whatever supported version of Windows you use, I'd say. > >>

Re: Quick query about Windows versions

2020-03-31 Thread ASSI
Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin-apps writes: > Just thought I should ask: is there a perferred version of Windows to > build packages on, or does it not matter? Whatever supported version of Windows you use, I'd say. > I currently build on Windows 7, following the tradition

Quick query about Windows versions

2020-03-31 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin-apps
Hi all, Just thought I should ask: is there a perferred version of Windows to build packages on, or does it not matter? I currently build on Windows 7, following the tradition of building on the oldest supported platform, but I have no idea if this is needed with Cygwin. Hamish

Re: [PATCH setup] Add --allow-unsupported-windows option

2017-01-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
want to make it hard for someone to destroy their working XP > installation, so allowing setup to simply run on XP, which will break it by > upgrading it to the latest version (which doesn't work on XP), seems > contraindicated. > > When --allow-unsupported-windows is on: >

[PATCH setup] Add --allow-unsupported-windows option

2017-01-22 Thread Jon Turney
installation, so allowing setup to simply run on XP, which will break it by upgrading it to the latest version (which doesn't work on XP), seems contraindicated. When --allow-unsupported-windows is on: - Don't check the windows version - Don't read the mirror list from cygwin.com - Don&#

Re: Network installation still fails, Windows 7 only

2016-06-30 Thread Thomas Wolff
same machine, there is also a virtual machine running Windows XP. From that, I can use setup.exe and seamlessly update cygwin which is then also available in the Windows 7 host environment. Running setup.exe from Windows 7 directly still fails with the described symptoms. There must be something weird

Re: Network installation still fails, Windows 7 only

2016-06-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
also a virtual > machine running Windows XP. From that, I can use setup.exe and seamlessly > update cygwin which is then also available in the Windows 7 host > environment. Running setup.exe from Windows 7 directly still fails with the > described symptoms. > > There must be someth

Network installation still fails, Windows 7 only

2016-06-21 Thread Thomas Wolff
I had recently reported that an old network installation problem, that had been resolved meanwhile, reappeared: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2015-12/msg00012.html As an additional observation, on the same machine, there is also a virtual machine running Windows XP. From that, I can use

Re: [PATCH setup 0/3] Drop Windows 9x-related code

2016-01-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 8 14:32, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > Yaakov Selkowitz (3): > propsheet: drop support for Common Controls v4 > nio-ie5: drop unnecessary LoadLibrary call > Use Winsock 2 throughout > > Makefile.am | 2 +- > nio-ftp.cc | 2 +- > nio-http.cc | 2 +- > nio-ie5.cc | 7 --- >

[PATCH setup 0/3] Drop Windows 9x-related code

2016-01-08 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
Yaakov Selkowitz (3): propsheet: drop support for Common Controls v4 nio-ie5: drop unnecessary LoadLibrary call Use Winsock 2 throughout Makefile.am | 2 +- nio-ftp.cc | 2 +- nio-http.cc | 2 +- nio-ie5.cc | 7 --- propsheet.cc | 45 +--

Re: setup.exe not logging on Windows 10 with MS accounts

2015-10-16 Thread Warren Young
On Oct 15, 2015, at 2:29 PM, Warren Young wrote: > > Achim Gratz noted that my default permissions may be weird because I am > running with a Microsoft Account rather than a local one. I just poked a hole in that theory last night: I have a Windows 8 VM at home that also uses a M

setup.exe not logging on Windows 10 with MS accounts

2015-10-15 Thread Warren Young
pushed me into, since I upgraded this VM to Windows 10 to test Windows 10. Might as well use it with its defaults as much as possible, yes? No point testing a new OS if I’m just going to turn off everything that’s new about it. [1]: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-10/msg00179.html

Re: [PATCH] setup: add Windows 8.1 to manifest

2014-02-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 09:32:20PM +0100, Achim Gratz wrote: >Corinna Vinschen writes: >> I'm not sure what you're doing. > >I'm making two builds from two Cygwin installations (one 32bit and one >64bit) with the native toolchain (not cross-compiled). I've had some >disk space problems that preven

Re: [PATCH] setup: add Windows 8.1 to manifest

2014-02-25 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: > I'm not sure what you're doing. I'm making two builds from two Cygwin installations (one 32bit and one 64bit) with the native toolchain (not cross-compiled). I've had some disk space problems that prevented installation of the cross compilation toolchain(s) originally.

Re: [PATCH] setup: add Windows 8.1 to manifest

2014-02-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 25 19:58, Achim Gratz wrote: > Christopher Faylor writes: > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 01:13:29PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 07:06:27PM +0100, Achim Gratz wrote: > >>>Corinna Vinschen writes: > I added the 8.1 GUID to setup on 2013-11-19 already. Did we

Re: [PATCH] setup: add Windows 8.1 to manifest

2014-02-25 Thread Achim Gratz
Christopher Faylor writes: > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 01:13:29PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 07:06:27PM +0100, Achim Gratz wrote: >>>Corinna Vinschen writes: I added the 8.1 GUID to setup on 2013-11-19 already. Did we have no new release since then? >>> >>>I

Re: [PATCH] setup: add Windows 8.1 to manifest

2014-02-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
>I don't think that version was ever released on cygwin.com. > >I'll release a new version ASAP. Done. A list of what changed is below. Hint: It's all Corinna. cgf revision 2.844 date: 2013/11/19 21:52:55; author: corinna; state: Exp; lines: +7 -2 *

Re: [PATCH] setup: add Windows 8.1 to manifest

2014-02-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 07:06:27PM +0100, Achim Gratz wrote: >Corinna Vinschen writes: >> I added the 8.1 GUID to setup on 2013-11-19 already. Did we have no new >> release since then? > >I don't think that version was ever released on cygwin.com. I'll release a new version ASAP. cgf

Re: [PATCH] setup: add Windows 8.1 to manifest

2014-02-25 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: > I added the 8.1 GUID to setup on 2013-11-19 already. Did we have no new > release since then? I don't think that version was ever released on cygwin.com. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Wavetables for the Terra

Re: [PATCH] setup: add Windows 8.1 to manifest

2014-02-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 25 10:56, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > Just noticed that Windows 8.1 compatibility was missing from > setup*.exe.manifest; patch attached. > > > Yaakov > 2014-02-25 Yaakov Selkowitz > > * setup.exe.manifest: Add Windows 8.1 to compatibility list. >

[PATCH] setup: add Windows 8.1 to manifest

2014-02-25 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
Just noticed that Windows 8.1 compatibility was missing from setup*.exe.manifest; patch attached. Yaakov 2014-02-25 Yaakov Selkowitz * setup.exe.manifest: Add Windows 8.1 to compatibility list. * setup64.exe.manifest: Ditto. Index: setup.exe.manifest

[64bit] multitail-5.2.12-1: View one or multiple files like tail but with multiple windows

2013-04-29 Thread Dr . Volker Zell
Hi A new 64bit version of 'multitail' has been uploaded to a server near you. o Update to latest upstream release o Build for cygwin 1.7.19 with gcc-4.8.0 o Added Oracle WebLogic and Oracle GoldenGate logfile highlightning multitail NEWS: === o No NEWS file available CYGWIN

[64bit] {libwmf/libwmf027/libwmf-devel/libwmf-doc/gdk-pixbuf2-wmf}-0.2.8.4-11: Windows Metafile library

2013-04-25 Thread Dr . Volker Zell
Hi New versions of 'libwmf/libwmf027/libwmf-devel/libwmf-doc/gdk-pixbuf2-wmf' have been uploaded to a server near you. o Build for cygwin 1.7.19-2 with gcc-4.8.0 CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list

Re: CFA: support Windows 8 in /usr/lib/csih/winProductName.exe

2012-02-06 Thread Charles Wilson
On 2/6/2012 6:30 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: 6.2 is correct. Have a look into dump_sysinfo() in utils/cygcheck.cc. It's updated to the latest known state when the W8 test release became available. Ah, thanks. I looked at wincap.cc and didn't see anything there, so... -- Chuck

Re: CFA: support Windows 8 in /usr/lib/csih/winProductName.exe

2012-02-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 5 16:40, Charles Wilson wrote: > Call for assistance: can somebody with access to Windows 8 provide > an appropriate tested patch so that winProductName can recognize > Windows 8 (various flavors, including Windows Server 8)? > > Getting the System Version > http://msd

CFA: support Windows 8 in /usr/lib/csih/winProductName.exe

2012-02-05 Thread Charles Wilson
Call for assistance: can somebody with access to Windows 8 provide an appropriate tested patch so that winProductName can recognize Windows 8 (various flavors, including Windows Server 8)? Getting the System Version http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724429%28v=vs.85%29.aspx has not

Re: a2ps on Cygwin quietly exits with code 127 on Windows 7

2010-07-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
David, On Jul 26 23:47, Yaakov S wrote: > On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 04:53 +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > > Try installing libintl2. a2ps.exe depends on that very old version but > > doesn't mention it explicitly in its setup.hint dependencies. (Probably it > > used to get pulled in by default anyway by

Re: mintty/Windows interoperability (was: Re: default terminal)

2010-06-07 Thread Andy Koppe
On 2 June 2010 22:01, Christopher Faylor wrote: > I'm pretty sure that everyone here knows that ptys don't work well with > all DOS applications. PuTTYcyg author Mark Edgar points out a rather simple workaround for this that hadn't occurred to me before: invoke the problematic application through

Re: mintty/Windows interoperability

2010-06-04 Thread Andy Koppe
ing to. I think any solution to this issue should be done as a standalone wrapper that needs to be invoked explicitly, at least initially. If it proved itself, it would be worth considering to invoke it automatically from the Cygwin DLL when a Windows program is spawned. Andy

Re: mintty/Windows interoperability (was: Re: default terminal)

2010-06-03 Thread Andy Koppe
On 3 June 2010 21:25, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Ah, right! I had not noticed this, only that error message are not fixed. > Something else that *is* fixed this way is e.g. > cmd /c help > (which also shows that cmd has a built-in chcp in addition to the > stand-alone chcp.com that at l

Re: mintty/Windows interoperability (was: Re: default terminal)

2010-06-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 07:17:34PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: >On 2 June 2010 21:39, Thomas Wolff wrote: >> Before making it the only default, however, there's still two issues to >> consider concerning interoperability with Windows programs: >> >> ?? * The known lim

Re: mintty/Windows interoperability

2010-06-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 02:14:29PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: >On 6/2/2010 7:02 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> >>> Does mintty currently work around any such problems? >> >> I really don't understand the question in light of the observations that >> there will be problems with some MS-DOS applic

Re: mintty/Windows interoperability (was: Re: default terminal)

2010-06-03 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 03.06.2010 20:17, schrieb Andy Koppe: On 2 June 2010 21:39, Thomas Wolff wrote: ... * Another issue with even those Windows/DOS programs that do work in general: They assume the Windows ANSI encoding so their output (and input assumption) will not match the mintty character

Re: mintty/Windows interoperability

2010-06-03 Thread Warren Young
On 6/2/2010 7:02 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Does mintty currently work around any such problems? I really don't understand the question in light of the observations that there will be problems with some MS-DOS applications if we switch to mintty because of cygwin's pty implementation. I'm

Re: mintty/Windows interoperability (was: Re: default terminal)

2010-06-03 Thread Andy Koppe
On 2 June 2010 21:39, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Before making it the only default, however, there's still two issues to > consider concerning interoperability with Windows programs: > >   * The known limitation with certain Windows (or even DOS) programs >     due to the incompatib

Re: mintty/Windows interoperability

2010-06-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 03:18:17PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: >On 6/2/2010 3:01 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>I'm pretty sure that everyone here knows that ptys don't work well with >>all DOS applications. I mentioned it when I first proposed making >>mintty the default. I'm not opposed to two

Re: mintty/Windows interoperability

2010-06-02 Thread Warren Young
On 6/2/2010 3:01 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: It could be that there is an application used by thousands that works well in the console window while failing miserably under a tty/pty. Does mintty currently work around any such problems? If so, how hard is it to just keep finding them and work

Re: mintty/Windows interoperability (was: Re: default terminal)

2010-06-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
s. >Before making it the only default, however, there's still two issues to >consider concerning interoperability with Windows programs: > >* The known limitation with certain Windows (or even DOS) programs > due to the incompatibility of some of the multiple Windows

mintty/Windows interoperability (was: Re: default terminal)

2010-06-02 Thread Thomas Wolff
fault terminal? Sounds good to me. I absolutely support to promote mintty side-by-side as one of two desktop links. Before making it the only default, however, there's still two issues to consider concerning interoperability with Windows programs: * The known limitation wi

Re: New run version with patches for Windows 7

2009-08-10 Thread Charles Wilson
|| defined(__MINGW32__) + /* mingw or cygwin-1.5: work around bug in Windows 7, but also +* employ on XP and above. This means that setup_invisible_console() +* is now used only on <= Win2k */ + if (os_version >= 0x0501) + { + HMODULE lib = GetModuleHa

Re: New run version with patches for Windows 7

2009-08-10 Thread Charles Wilson
Alexander Gottwald wrote: > Surprise! > > I did not follow the list very closely so I'm not sure if I'd be able to > build a working replacement package of run esp. since I still only > have the 1.5 tree around here. > > I'd feel relieved if someone would take over the run package. If that's >

Re: New run version with patches for Windows 7

2009-08-10 Thread Charles Wilson
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Ok, so Alexander replied (thanks!) and would like to drop maintainership > so if you like to take it back, feel free. OK. > We need run working for W7 asap, but in the long run, why not have both > capabilites in one single "run" application? Mainly to allow for continu

Re: New run version with patches for Windows 7

2009-08-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 9 15:49, Charles Wilson wrote: > [consolidated reply] > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Oh, right. It won't work quite correctly under 1.5 either. Why do > > we need a 1.5 aware version again? Anyway, if you look into the > > patch, you'll see that it is very simple to keep the old code i

Re: New run version with patches for Windows 7

2009-08-09 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 04:43:19PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Aug 9 10:20, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> Since we don't have a package maintainer for run, why not just >>> make this change and release it for 1.7? >> We don't know yet if we don't have a package

Re: New run version with patches for Windows 7

2009-08-09 Thread Charles Wilson
[consolidated reply] Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Oh, right. It won't work quite correctly under 1.5 either. Why do > we need a 1.5 aware version again? Anyway, if you look into the > patch, you'll see that it is very simple to keep the old code in > conditionally. What about this one? It only l

Re: New run version with patches for Windows 7

2009-08-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 04:43:19PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Aug 9 10:20, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 04:06:24PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >--- run-1.1.10.orig/src/run.c 2006-05-22 14:32:43.0 +0200 >> >+++ run-1.1.10/src/run.c2009-08-09 1

Re: New run version with patches for Windows 7

2009-08-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 9 10:20, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 04:06:24PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >--- run-1.1.10.orig/src/run.c2006-05-22 14:32:43.0 +0200 > >+++ run-1.1.10/src/run.c 2009-08-09 16:03:58.0 +0200 > >@@ -349,6 +349,8 @@ int start_child(char*

Re: New run version with patches for Windows 7

2009-08-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 04:06:24PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Aug 9 15:58, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Aug 9 09:42, Charles Wilson wrote: >> > Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> > > New patch below. >> > >> > ...which only works if run is compiled under cygwin 1.7, not if it is >> > compiled a

Re: New run version with patches for Windows 7

2009-08-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 9 15:58, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 9 09:42, Charles Wilson wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > New patch below. > > > > ...which only works if run is compiled under cygwin 1.7, not if it is > > compiled as a native app or under cygwin 1.5. I guess it's up to > > Alexander (or

Re: New run version with patches for Windows 7

2009-08-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 9 09:42, Charles Wilson wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > Actually, it turned out that the entire FreeConsole/AttachConsole > > stuff is entirely unnecessary. I have a solution now which apparently > > works for all OSes and it's really very simple. What I didn't realize > > is that

Re: New run version with patches for Windows 7

2009-08-09 Thread Charles Wilson
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Actually, it turned out that the entire FreeConsole/AttachConsole > stuff is entirely unnecessary. I have a solution now which apparently > works for all OSes and it's really very simple. What I didn't realize > is that run.exe as a GUI application has no console attach

Re: New run version with patches for Windows 7

2009-08-09 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/8/9 Corinna Vinschen: >> > Having the console creation code in run also has the advantage of >> > working when starting run from an existing console window.  The child >> > process will run detached from the existing console in an invisible >> > console window.  You can close the original cons

Re: New run version with patches for Windows 7

2009-08-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 9 11:21, Andy Koppe wrote: > 2009/8/9 Corinna Vinschen: > > Have you seen the patch?  The code duplication is tiny.  It's a much > > simpler solution than in the Cygwin DLL. > > But it'll still need changing again when MS break hidden consoles again. > > > Having the console creation code

Re: New run version with patches for Windows 7

2009-08-09 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/8/9 Corinna Vinschen: > Have you seen the patch?  The code duplication is tiny.  It's a much > simpler solution than in the Cygwin DLL. But it'll still need changing again when MS break hidden consoles again. > Having the console creation code in run also has the advantage of > working when

Re: New run version with patches for Windows 7

2009-08-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 9 10:06, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 8 19:51, Charles Wilson wrote: > > Anyway - Corinna, I dunno about Alexander/run but I'd like to see the > > "incredibly simple" patch, for run2. > > Well, the patch is dead simple, just look into my original mail. Feel > free to use it for run2

Re: New run version with patches for Windows 7

2009-08-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 8 19:51, Charles Wilson wrote: > Anyway - Corinna, I dunno about Alexander/run but I'd like to see the > "incredibly simple" patch, for run2. Well, the patch is dead simple, just look into my original mail. Feel free to use it for run2 as well. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen

Re: New run version with patches for Windows 7

2009-08-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 9 00:14, Andy Koppe wrote: > 2009/8/8 Corinna Vinschen : > > are you still with us in some way?  There hasn't been a new version of > > the "run" tool for ages.  Now, with the upcoming Windows 7,  it's > > necessary to workaround a bug in W7 in t

Re: New run version with patches for Windows 7

2009-08-09 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/8/9 Charles Wilson: >> Couldn't "run" just do nothing but invoke spawnvp() on the given >> command? This way, it would rely on the invisible console code in >> cygwin1.dll, and there'd be no need for duplicating any of that code. > > That's a feature, not a bug. Not saying it's a bug, but an

Re: New run version with patches for Windows 7

2009-08-08 Thread Charles Wilson
Andy Koppe wrote: > 2009/8/8 Corinna Vinschen >> are you still with us in some way? There hasn't been a new version of >> the "run" tool for ages. Now, with the upcoming Windows 7, it's >> necessary to workaround a bug in W7 in terms of creating an inv

Re: New run version with patches for Windows 7

2009-08-08 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/8/8 Corinna Vinschen : > are you still with us in some way?  There hasn't been a new version of > the "run" tool for ages.  Now, with the upcoming Windows 7,  it's > necessary to workaround a bug in W7 in terms of creating an invisible > console.  I have experi

New run version with patches for Windows 7

2009-08-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Alexander, are you still with us in some way? There hasn't been a new version of the "run" tool for ages. Now, with the upcoming Windows 7, it's necessary to workaround a bug in W7 in terms of creating an invisible console. I have experimented a lot and came up with

Re: Windows Public Key Authentication

2008-07-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
s problem. > >General speaking I have not a problem with the behaviour itself, but when >I use the public-key authentication the Windows Utility "diskpart.exe" does >not start. It only works when I use password-authentication instead. >But as diskpart is included in some scripts,

Re: Windows Public Key Authentication

2008-07-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 22 09:04, Zimmermann, Benjamin wrote: > 3) When will the next major release of Cygwin (Cygwin 1.7 or so...) be > released? Hopefully in 2008. > 4) Does anybody know if the public-key authentication / own session-feature > will be solved in Cygwin 1.7? Yes. By using Cygwin's own LSA

Windows Public Key Authentication

2008-07-22 Thread Zimmermann, Benjamin
, but when I use the public-key authentication the Windows Utility "diskpart.exe" does not start. It only works when I use password-authentication instead. But as diskpart is included in some scripts, it is mandandory for me to use the public-key authentication. I have already search in th

Re: [ITA] libwmf: Windows Metafile library

2008-03-28 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Dr. Volker Zell on 3/23/2008 9:54 AM: | Hi | | I would like to adopt and maintain the 'libwmf' package from Gerrit P.Haase and split it | into 'libwmf/libwmf027/libwmf-devel/libwmf-doc/gdk-pixbuf2-wmf' packages. Uploaded. - -- Don't wor

[GTG] libwmf: Windows Metafile library

2008-03-28 Thread Gergely Budai
All packages builds from source. setup.hints and packages look fine. GTG Gergely Budai --- Hi I would like to adopt and maintain the 'libwmf' package from Gerrit P.Haase and split it into 'libwmf/libwmf027/

[ITA] libwmf: Windows Metafile library

2008-03-23 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
are the setup.hint files: --- ./gdk-pixbuf2-wmf/setup.hint sdesc: "Windows Metafile library - (GdkPixbuf loader)" ldesc: "Library and utilities for displaying and converting metafile images." category: Devel Graphics Libs requires: cygwin gtk2-

ash/bash postinstall dance [Was: Cygwin doesn't install on Windows Server 2008 (x64).]

2008-03-14 Thread Brian Dessent
Krzysztof Ostrowski wrote: > What is the purpose of "00ash.sh", and what kind of system calls does it > attempt at making? Surely, it must be something very unusual because I've got The strange thing about this is that 00ash should be totally superfluous on a new system. And syscalls? It's a sh

Re: [ITA] editrights 1.01-2 -- Alter Windows user rights and privileges from command line

2007-12-13 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 13 16:13, Jari Aalto wrote: > > * Thu 2007-12-13 Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > ...it's still version 1.01. Wouldn't the above change qualify for > > > a 1.02 release? Just an idea... > > > > I'll contact the original author; I fe

Re: [ITA] editrights 1.01-2 -- Alter Windows user rights and privileges from command line

2007-12-13 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 13 13:06, Jari Aalto wrote: > > > > Adoption of package by Chris Rodgers. Note: the category was changed > > from "Base" to "Util", since this does not seem to be essential package. > > This package is in Base for a reason. It is an essential

Re: [ITA] editrights 1.01-2 -- Alter Windows user rights and privileges from command line

2007-12-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 13 16:13, Jari Aalto wrote: > * Thu 2007-12-13 Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ...it's still version 1.01. Wouldn't the above change qualify for > > a 1.02 release? Just an idea... > > I'll contact the original author; I feel the upstream number should stay > in the "official" ve

Re: [ITA] editrights 1.01-2 -- Alter Windows user rights and privileges from command line

2007-12-13 Thread Jari Aalto
* Thu 2007-12-13 Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Dec 13 14:17, Jari Aalto wrote: > >> I added these that were missing from main.c::printUsage >> >> SeCreateGlobalPrivilege >> SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege >> SeImpersonatePrivilege >> SeIncr

Re: [ITA] editrights 1.01-2 -- Alter Windows user rights and privileges from command line

2007-12-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 13 14:17, Jari Aalto wrote: > I added these that were missing from main.c::printUsage > > SeCreateGlobalPrivilege > SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege > SeImpersonatePrivilege > SeIncreaseWorkingSetPrivilege > SeRelabelPrivilege > SeTimeZonePrivilege > SeTrustedCredMa

Re: [ITA] editrights 1.01-2 -- Alter Windows user rights and privileges from command line

2007-12-13 Thread Jari Aalto
* Thu 2007-12-13 Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> This package is in Base for a reason. It is an essential package and >> used for instance in the openssh config script. Ok. Fixed. > Oh, btw. While you're at it, would you mind to add the missing > user pri

Re: [ITA] editrights 1.01-2 -- Alter Windows user rights and privileges from command line

2007-12-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 13 12:19, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 13 13:06, Jari Aalto wrote: > > > > Adoption of package by Chris Rodgers. Note: the category was changed > > from "Base" to "Util", since this does not seem to be essential package. > > This package is in Base for a reason. It is an essential pac

Re: [ITA] editrights 1.01-2 -- Alter Windows user rights and privileges from command line

2007-12-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 13 13:06, Jari Aalto wrote: > > Adoption of package by Chris Rodgers. Note: the category was changed > from "Base" to "Util", since this does not seem to be essential package. This package is in Base for a reason. It is an essential package and used for instance in the openssh config scri

[ITA] editrights 1.01-2 -- Alter Windows user rights and privileges from command line

2007-12-13 Thread Cygwin-bug#20071213T1052
Adoption of package by Chris Rodgers. Note: the category was changed from "Base" to "Util", since this does not seem to be essential package. sdesc: "Alter Windows user rights and privileges from command line" ldesc: "Alter Windows user rights and privileges

FW: Cannot install cygwin on Windows Xp

2007-04-13 Thread Dave Korn
m I wrong in thinking there's no need at all to be running anything from outside the newly-installed cygwin tree (and the basic windows system dirs)? cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today

Re: Bug: setup.exe crashes on Windows Server 2000

2007-03-26 Thread Igor Peshansky
s, > > > > > > I'm trying to install Cygwin on Windows Server 2000. I've downloaded > > > the latest version of Cygwin's setup.exe, started it, got all the > > > way to the point where downloading of packages begins, but there i > > > get "

Re: 9x aware setup.exe (was Re: EOL for Windows 95/98/Me)

2007-03-01 Thread Brian Dessent
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > I agree. "legacy" sounds better. What do you think about the symlink > idea for now? Okay, fixed thusly. BrianIndex: ini.h === RCS file: /cvs/cygwin-apps/setup/ini.h,v retrieving revision 2.36 diff -u -p

Re: 9x aware setup.exe (was Re: EOL for Windows 95/98/Me)

2007-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
at most users already are using the right >> >setup version when 1.7.0 gets released once. >> >> I woke up this morning and realized that it shouldn't be called "9x" but >> rather "legacy". Then it should be slightly clearer that this >> repository supports older windows and maybe even now-obsolete cygwin >> features. > >I agree. "legacy" sounds better. What do you think about the symlink >idea for now? Go for it. cgf

Re: 9x aware setup.exe (was Re: EOL for Windows 95/98/Me)

2007-02-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
's/release/release_9x/'. > >This allows testing and deploying the new setup.exe tool very soon. It > >has the aditional advantage that most users already are using the right > >setup version when 1.7.0 gets released once. > > I woke up this morning and realized th

  1   2   >