From: matthew patton <pattonme@yahoo.com>
To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: How to reinstall everything?
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2021 20:53:43 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <587070012.1721774.1610916823028@mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874kjfe4c0.fsf@Rainer.invalid>
On Sunday, January 17, 2021, 02:44:37 PM EST, Achim Gratz <stromeko@nexgo.de> wrote:
>matthew patton via Cygwin writes:
>> can we fix setup.exe to read STDIN with '-P', like so?
>> echo 'pkg1,pkg2,pkg3' | setup.exe -P -
> You probably forgot that setup is a Windows program. besides, you must
> not start it from the Cygwin that you are about to install a package into.
so Windows programs can't be written to read from STDIN? I can't think of any Unix utility that uses commas to delimit. And any Windows one that uses commas is clearly improper/wrong was well.
If "you're not supposed to invoke setup.exe from within cygwin" were true then all the 'xargs' and 'paste' workarounds are null and void. And no, I don't automatically reach for xargs to bandaid around poorly written programs that violate 50 years of convention.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-17 20:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-16 19:55 Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
2021-01-16 21:02 ` Marco Atzeri
2021-01-16 21:59 ` Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
2021-01-21 16:00 ` Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
2021-01-21 16:24 ` Marco Atzeri
2021-01-21 16:25 ` Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
2021-01-17 18:23 ` matthew patton
2021-01-17 19:32 ` Brian Inglis
2021-01-17 19:44 ` Achim Gratz
2021-01-17 20:53 ` matthew patton [this message]
2021-01-18 22:48 ` Brian Inglis
2021-01-17 20:10 ` Hans-Bernhard Bröker
2021-01-21 17:44 ` Bill Stewart
2021-02-04 14:21 ` Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
2021-02-04 15:24 ` Marco Atzeri
2021-02-04 15:25 ` Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-06-26 17:47 Eliot Moss
2020-06-26 18:06 ` marco atzeri
2020-06-26 18:17 ` Brian Inglis
2020-06-27 17:39 ` Brian Inglis
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