From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4419 invoked by alias); 29 Jul 2008 14:16:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 4409 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Jul 2008 14:16:23 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from dessent.net (HELO dessent.net) (69.60.119.225) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:16:00 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1] helo=dessent.net) by dessent.net with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KNpzZ-0006oF-MP; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:15:57 +0000 Message-ID: <488F257D.2E56FFA8@dessent.net> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:16:00 -0000 From: Brian Dessent Reply-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Morrison CC: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Package Grep source and Program not installed functionality References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2008-07/txt/msg00168.txt.bz2 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". Brian