From: "John Morrison" <john@morrison.mine.nu>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Package Grep source and Program not installed functionality
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:37:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40e575aeeead0d1901cf3fc8f51c1075.squirrel@mail.morrison.mine.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <488F257D.2E56FFA8@dessent.net>
On Tue, July 29, 2008 3:13 pm, Brian Dessent wrote:
> John Morrison wrote:
>
>> Would it be possible to extend the cgi
>>
>> http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi
>>
>> to (optionally) output plain text instead of the formatted HTML?
>>
>> Add a output=text instruction? If the source is available I'd be
>> willing
>> to see if I could do the mod. I was thinking of some kind of command
>> line
>> which would simplify the users finding out what package they would need
>> to
>> install to access a particular tool, for example on my ubuntu machine;
>
> This already exists, it's spelled "cygcheck -p".
I didn't know. Thanks for the sarcasm. God I'd forgotten just how nasty
this list can be. And all for wanting to make cygwin a 'nicer'
environment for new/inexperienced users.
J.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-29 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-29 12:12 John Morrison
2008-07-29 14:16 ` Brian Dessent
2008-07-29 16:37 ` John Morrison [this message]
2008-07-29 17:13 ` Brian Dessent
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