Here's how I went about installing Cygwin via setup.exe with the free, open source screen reader NVDA: 1. Download and run setup.exe, and click "Next" at each prompt, as the user guide says, for a core install. 2. Install additional packages with the -P option. E.G.: setup -P gcc -P git -P bzr -P python etc. Adam
Adam Puckett sent the following at Monday, March 05, 2012 10:59 AM > >Here's how I went about installing Cygwin via setup.exe with the free, >open source screen reader NVDA: > >1. Download and run setup.exe, and click "Next" at each prompt, as the >user guide says, for a core install. >2. Install additional packages with the -P option. E.G.: > >setup -P gcc -P git -P bzr -P python > >etc. (1) Shouldn't this have been appropriate for the main list, not talk? (2) This sounds like it might work as a basic for the generic "automatic install" question that periodically shows up on the main list. Might it be appropriate for a FAQ or somewhere else in the documentation or on the web site? (Not that I have tried this or that it matters to me.) - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.
I put it here to avoid being told to TITTTL. On 3/6/12, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] <BBuchbinder <at> niaid.nih.gov> wrote: > Adam Puckett sent the following at Monday, March 05, 2012 10:59 AM >> >>Here's how I went about installing Cygwin via setup.exe with the free, >>open source screen reader NVDA: >> >>1. Download and run setup.exe, and click "Next" at each prompt, as the >>user guide says, for a core install. >>2. Install additional packages with the -P option. E.G.: >> >>setup -P gcc -P git -P bzr -P python >> >>etc. > > (1) Shouldn't this have been appropriate for the main list, not talk? > > (2) This sounds like it might work as a basic for the generic "automatic > install" question that periodically shows up on the main list. Might it > be appropriate for a FAQ or somewhere else in the documentation or on the > web site? (Not that I have tried this or that it matters to me.) > > - Barry > Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. > >
On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 08:55:01PM -0500, Adam Puckett wrote: >I put it here to avoid being told to TITTTL. Uh, no. Tips on how to use Cygwin are certainly appropriate for the Cygwin list.
Christopher Faylor wrote on March 06, 2012, at 10:45 PM >On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 08:55:01PM -0500, Adam Puckett wrote: >>I put it here to avoid being told to TITTTL. > >Uh, no. Tips on how to use Cygwin are certainly appropriate >for the Cygwin list. Whatever one does, it is always wrong.
On Mar 7 06:11, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote on March 06, 2012, at 10:45 PM > >On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 08:55:01PM -0500, Adam Puckett wrote: > >>I put it here to avoid being told to TITTTL. > > > >Uh, no. Tips on how to use Cygwin are certainly appropriate > >for the Cygwin list. > > Whatever one does, it is always wrong.
On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 06:11:55AM -0500, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote on March 06, 2012, at 10:45 PM >>On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 08:55:01PM -0500, Adam Puckett wrote: >>>I put it here to avoid being told to TITTTL. >> >>Uh, no. Tips on how to use Cygwin are certainly appropriate >>for the Cygwin list. > >Whatever one does, it is always wrong.(Continue reading)
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 10:22 AM , Christopher Faylor wrote: > If you can't actually talk in an informative way about a cygwin utility > on the cygwin list then what in the world would the cygwin list be for? > Sending "git doesn't work"/"You need to rebase" mantras? > Yeah, the rules are SO hard. > If you want to moan and complain about a cygwin personality, take it to > the talk list. > If you want to talk about the great pizza that you had last night while > running setup.exe, take it to the talk list. > If you want to tell everyone the story of your life and how it came > about that you are running cygwin, take it to the talk list. > If you want to talk about hippos and their evolutionary relationship to > other animals, take it to the talk list. > If you want to make a sarcastic comment about something somebody said on > the cygwin list, well, you could just respond to it on the cygwin list > or you could take it to the talk list. You'll probably be asked to > take it here eventually if you keep it up. > But, then, I don't recall a time in the last several months that someone > was actually told to take a discussion here. So it isn't like people > are constantly being cruelly persecuted by mean mailing list snobs > attempting to enforce obscure rules.(Continue reading)
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