Re: Package list updated at the cygwin web site

Re: Package list updated at the cygwin web site

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 11:56:22AM -0500, Simon Lvov wrote:
>It would be very nice if each package page contain a link
>to a man page or similar doc.

Hmm.  I guess I could extract the man page from the tar file.  That
would be an expensive operation, though.

I'll have to think about this a little.

>You are doing unbelievable job!

Thanks!  I enjoyed writing a CGI script in perl.  It was a lot more
relaxing that tracking down signal races in cygwin1.dll, even if I
had to learn more about apache than I really wanted to do this simple
thing...

cgf

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Re: Package list updated at the cygwin web site

[Simon Lvov]

It would be very nice if each package page contain a link
to a man page or similar doc.

You are doing unbelievable job!
Thanks a lot.
simon...

Christopher Faylor wrote:

> Hello,
> I announced a new web page a couple of days ago which listed all of the
> packages available in the download areas used by cygwin's setup.exe
> program.  The URL is:
>
>     http://cygwin.com/packages/
>
> This URL is also reachable via the cygwin web page by clicking on
> the "Cygwin Packages" link.
>
> I've recently added a search option that allows you to find which
> package(s) contain a given file.  This should be useful if you know you
> need a specific file but aren't sure which package contains it.
>
> The search function can be directly invoked via something like the
> following URL:
>
>     http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=cygncurses5.dll
>
> This will find all packages which contain the "cygncurses5.dll" file.
> To find something different, change the cygncurses5.dll to... something
> different.
>
> FYI,
> cgf


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