John Morrison wrote: > > This already exists, it's spelled "cygcheck -p". > > I didn't know. Thanks for the sarcasm. God I'd forgotten just how nasty > this list can be. And all for wanting to make cygwin a 'nicer' > environment for new/inexperienced users.
Seriously, no snark intended. You asked about adding feature X to package-grep.cgi, but feature X already exists and is used by cygcheck to implement -p. As far as auto-suggesting things when commands aren't found, I think there are a lot of implications to consider: - privacy aspects of every user's misspelled commands ending up in sourceware logs - latency aspects of delaying the prompt by a HTTP roundtrip and a sourceware grep for each missing command - increased load on sourceware - implications for offline/disconnected users - large amounts of output when a command matches a string in lots of packages As far as I know ubuntu can simply query the local APT database which is a different prospect entirely than initiating a HTTP request to a remote server. Brian
