I'm a little confused about GNOME on Cygwin. Cygwin installer claims to have a
whole GNOME section, but I can't find basic applications like gnome-terminal or
gnome-text-editor. Google shows there are ports of GNOME for Cygwin; but then
why does the installer have a GNOME section
On 8/4/2010 2:20 PM, Raul Acevedo wrote:
I'm a little confused about GNOME on Cygwin. Cygwin installer claims to have
a whole GNOME section, but I can't find basic applications like
gnome-terminal or gnome-text-editor. Google shows there are ports of GNOME
for Cygwin; but then wh
So why are there GNOME packages in Cygwin? What is actually in them?
On Aug 4, 2010, at 4:34 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote:
> On 8/4/2010 2:20 PM, Raul Acevedo wrote:
>> I'm a little confused about GNOME on Cygwin. Cygwin installer claims to have
>> a whole GNOME secti
On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 12:43:11PM -0700, Raul Acevedo wrote:
>So why are there GNOME packages in Cygwin? What is actually in them?
http://cygwin.com/packages/
would answer that question for you.
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My real question is what is the point of these packages, if GNOME is not
actually in them. It's a bit confusing and I wasted a chunk of time trying to
install GNOME through Cygwin only to find out it's not possible.
Thanks,
Raul
On Aug 4, 2010, at 1:24 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed,
Raul Acevedo wrote:
>My real question is what is the point of these packages, if GNOME is
not
>actually in them. It's a bit confusing and I wasted a chunk of time
trying to
>install GNOME through Cygwin only to find out it's not possible.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Raul
>
>On Aug 4, 2010, at 1:24 PM, Christoph
On 8/4/2010 6:33 PM, Timares, Brian (HP) wrote:
Raul Acevedo wrote:
My real question is what is the point of these packages, if GNOME is
not actually in them. It's a bit confusing and I wasted a chunk of time
trying to install GNOME through Cygwin only to find out it's not possible.
Brian, yo
> The short answer is that it's there to house all-that-is-Gnome. It just
> doesn't contain everything yet. With some luck, it will someday. In the
> meantime, there are allot of packages that make up Gnome. Since the
> distribution has some of them now, it makes sense to put them in this
> cat
On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 23:04 -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote:
> On 8/4/2010 6:33 PM, Timares, Brian (HP) wrote:
> > Raul Acevedo wrote:
> >> My real question is what is the point of these packages, if GNOME is
> >> not actually in them. It's a bit confusing and I wasted a chunk of time
> >> tryi
On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 21:37 -0400, John J. McDonough wrote:
> Something that should be mentioned. GNOME is a huge, lumbering system
> with ten or twelve zillion libraries. Lots of programs rely on those
> libraries, but no program relies on all of them. As you port a program
> you may also need
On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 11:48:35PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>Since there are already in Ports, why aren't these in the distro? I
>already maintain a proportionally large number of the distro packages,
>and there is legitimate concern that having too many packages maintained
>by one voluntee
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