Re: setup-x86_64.exe 2.884 vs. setup.ini 2.891

2018-05-01 Thread Keith Thompson
On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 1:38 PM, Keith Thompson wrote: > I'm using a freshly downloaded copy of https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe, > which reports itself to be "Setup.exe version 2.884 (64 bit)". No, I wasn't. I had the correct version in the directory where I *thought* I was running it from,

Re: Cygwin Statistics and curiosity

2018-05-01 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 5/1/2018 2:49 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote: Hi, following a unpleasant discussion about cygwin usability https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2018-04/msg00364.html I wondered how many users cygwin have. As second statistics, where are cygwin users, I took the 64bit data of a Febrary week and crossed the

Re: Cygwin Statistics and curiosity

2018-05-01 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2018-05-01 06:49, Marco Atzeri wrote: > As curiosity the raw data of x86 download were very high in February due to a > single Windows 98 in Japan that was downloading 201122 times in a week the > setup-x86.exe Someone should point those folks to ancient circas at: http://www.crouchingt

Re: Cygwin Statistics and curiosity

2018-05-01 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 5/2/2018 1:22 AM, R0b0t1 wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 7:49 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote: Hi, following a unpleasant discussion about cygwin usability https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2018-04/msg00364.html I wondered how many users cygwin have. Younger people seem to prefer MSYS due to its use of p

Re: Circular dependency with mingw64-x86_64-runtime

2018-05-01 Thread Steven Penny
On Tue, 1 May 2018 13:44:45, JonY wrote: What is the actual problem you are facing? i already described it: when 2 things depend on each other in this way, that is an error: http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_dependency while setup.exe may account for this, it doesnt change the fact that this

Re: Cygwin Statistics and curiosity

2018-05-01 Thread R0b0t1
On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 7:49 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote: > Hi, > following a unpleasant discussion about cygwin usability > https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2018-04/msg00364.html > I wondered how many users cygwin have. > Younger people seem to prefer MSYS due to its use of pacman. Admittedly, it is very

Re: Cygwin Statistics and curiosity

2018-05-01 Thread Keith Christian
Cygwin is essential to my productivity and work flow on Windows. I seldom use X on Cygwin but it usually performs well when I do. Others' mileage may vary. On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 6:49 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote: > Hi, > following a unpleasant discussion about cygwin usability > https://cygwin.com/m

clang-family: error after --help (inconsistent command line options)

2018-05-01 Thread Jannick
Hello, I can confirm the bug reported in early April (https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2018-04/msg00021.html, author cc'ed): The following friends of the clang-... application family (5.0.1-2) show this error when calling, e.g., exe --help: : CommandLine Error: Option 'disable-symbolication' reg

Re: Circular dependency with mingw64-x86_64-runtime

2018-05-01 Thread JonY
On 04/30/2018 02:16 AM, Steven Penny wrote: > Here are the requirements for "gcc-core": > >  binutils, cygwin-devel, libatomic1, libgomp1, libisl15, libmpc3, > libquadmath0, >  libssp0, w32api-headers, w32api-runtime, windows-default-manifest > > and for "w32api-runtime": > >  w32api-headers >

Cygwin Statistics and curiosity

2018-05-01 Thread Marco Atzeri
Hi, following a unpleasant discussion about cygwin usability https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2018-04/msg00364.html I wondered how many users cygwin have. I decided to look at cygwin web server statistics for setup download to have some basic data. The web server log are stored for 12 weeks and I se

Re: Problem

2018-05-01 Thread Achim Gratz
Erik Soderquist writes: > At this point I'm kind of wishing the embedded message pointed to > http://cygwin.com/problems.html rather than the mailing list... https://sourceware.org/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=commitdiff;h=21f22726c77917d98d9cbe01f05843fdd7189df9 Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-1