Is there a tool for viewing all cygwin/GNU Software submissions

Is there a tool for viewing all cygwin/GNU Software submissions

[Arthur Schwarz]

Is there a general tool that will allow someone to see the definition of all
software in cygwin and allow browsing of libraries for content? If there is
not, how can I go about creating one (any ideas)?

What I would like to see for executables is a setup-like tool to pretty
print information on all available software without going through setup.
Where a library is included, I would like to see something about the
routines included in the library. 

Info does a great job of showing information on executables which have been
downloaded (although its presentation format is really bad), but provides no
insight on available but not downloaded software. 'setup' provides a
thumbnail description of all available software, but you have to use it in
conjunction with the internet, and viewing and searching is laborious. And I
don't know if there is anything which provides some brief information on
library contents. I think for libraries you have to go to the provided
application developer documentation or use one of the tools to read the
library contents.

So, anything there or anything I can do (to make it 'there').

art


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Re: Is there a tool for viewing all cygwin/GNU Software submissions

[Warren Young]

On Nov 25, 2014, at 3:49 PM, Arthur Schwarz <aschwarz1309@att.net> wrote:

> What I would like to see for executables is a setup-like tool to pretty
> print information on all available software without going through setup.
> Where a library is included, I would like to see something about the
> routines included in the library. 

So you want, what, MSDN for Cygwin?

Not going to happen.  MSDN documents everything in Windows because it all comes from one place.  Cygwin may appear to you to come from one place, but only because all of its contributors go out and grab things from all over the net and push them into the Cygwin repositories.

You’re not going to get a single documentation source for Cygwin for the same reason you don’t get a single documentation source for all software on the planet.

> So, anything there or anything I can do (to make it 'there’).

Step 1: Become Planetary Emperor
Step 2: ...

:)
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RE: Is there a tool for viewing all cygwin/GNU Software submissions

[Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]]

Arthur Schwarz sent the following at Tuesday, November 25, 2014 5:49 PM
>Is there a general tool that will allow someone to see the definition of
>all software in cygwin and allow browsing of libraries for content? If
>there is not, how can I go about creating one (any ideas)?
>
>What I would like to see for executables is a setup-like tool to pretty
>print information on all available software without going through setup.
>Where a library is included, I would like to see something about the
>routines included in the library.
>
>Info does a great job of showing information on executables which have
>been downloaded (although its presentation format is really bad), but
>provides no insight on available but not downloaded software. 'setup'
>provides a thumbnail description of all available software, but you have
>to use it in conjunction with the internet, and viewing and searching
>is laborious. And I don't know if there is anything which provides some
>brief information on library contents. I think for libraries you have to
>go to the provided application developer documentation or use one of the
>tools to read the library contents.
>
>So, anything there or anything I can do (to make it 'there').

To see package descriptions without setup, you can look inside setup.ini.
In addition to the short description (sdesc) displayed by setup, it has a
long description (ldesc), though sometimes that is just a repeat of sdesc.
The requires line can help one from downloading far more than one wishes.

- Barry
  Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.

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Re: Is there a tool for viewing all cygwin/GNU Software submissions

[Steven Penny]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Arthur Schwarz wrote:
> Is there a general tool that will allow someone to see the definition of all
> software in cygwin and allow browsing of libraries for content?

apt-cyg might work for you

http://github.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg

Examples

Displays the package records for the named packages

    apt-cyg show <package>

List files owned by packages

    apt-cyg listfiles <package>

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Re: Is there a tool for viewing all cygwin/GNU Software submissions

[Keith Christian]

Hi Arthur,

Two ways that I know of (besides Steven Penny's "apt-cyg" method.)


1 -------- The fastest way to get the whole catalog is to run the
setup program, but stop before installing any software (unless that is
your ultimate goal.)

Open a browser and download the setup program
(http://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe for 32 bit or
http://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe for 64 bit.)

Run setup, and proceed only far enough to download the "setup.ini"
file.  At that point, exit the setup program, and open "setup.ini"
with Notepad or another text editor.  You'll see the short and long
package descriptions within.


2 -------- Or, to see a list of only the package names, open a web
browser and go to https://cygwin.com/mirrors.html.  Click a link
closest to you, e.g. if in the western US, try "mirrors.kernel.org" or
other.

Then, click the "x86" or "x86_64" link, then the "release" link on the
next page, and browse the list of packages.

Full info about a single package is available by right-clicking the
"setup.hint" entry, and then "Open with..." and choose Notepad or
another text editor, depending on which browser you're using.


=== Keith

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Arthur Schwarz <aschwarz1309@att.net> wrote:
> Is there a general tool that will allow someone to see the definition of all
> software in cygwin and allow browsing of libraries for content? If there is
> not, how can I go about creating one (any ideas)?
>
> What I would like to see for executables is a setup-like tool to pretty
> print information on all available software without going through setup.
> Where a library is included, I would like to see something about the
> routines included in the library.
>
> Info does a great job of showing information on executables which have been
> downloaded (although its presentation format is really bad), but provides no
> insight on available but not downloaded software. 'setup' provides a
> thumbnail description of all available software, but you have to use it in
> conjunction with the internet, and viewing and searching is laborious. And I
> don't know if there is anything which provides some brief information on
> library contents. I think for libraries you have to go to the provided
> application developer documentation or use one of the tools to read the
> library contents.
>
> So, anything there or anything I can do (to make it 'there').
>
> art
>
>
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Re: Is there a tool for viewing all cygwin/GNU Software submissions

[Helmut Karlowski]

You could also try a little script I wrote:

http://home.arcor.de/zabruder/cygwin/cygdesc

It needs files created by cygcheck-dep. Docs inside.

-Helmut



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