Re: Date of first Cygwin release / 25th Anniversary

2020-10-18 Thread David Eisner via Cygwin
On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 2:51 PM Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Sep 23 19:53, Kevin Schnitzius via Cygwin wrote: > > On Wednesday, September 23, 2020, 02:33:13 PM EDT, David Eisner via > Cygwin wrote: > > > > > In any case, happy 25th anniversary, Cygwin! Thanks to

Re: Date of first Cygwin release / 25th Anniversary

2020-09-23 Thread David Eisner via Cygwin
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 3:18 PM Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] via Cygwin wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: David Eisner via Cygwin > > Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 2:33 PM > > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > > Subject: Date of first Cyg

Date of first Cygwin release / 25th Anniversary

2020-09-23 Thread David Eisner via Cygwin
Cygwin started in 1995. [1] Does anybody know the date of the first release? I recognize that there may be no definitive answer, depending on how one defines "release." In any case, happy 25th anniversary, Cygwin! Thanks to everybody who made it and continues to make it possible. -David [1] http

Re: Broken git difftool, perhaps related to recent Perl changes

2015-03-16 Thread David Eisner
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 4:09 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: > I simply was unaware that perl-Error was still using the 5.10 install path. > An update is ready, but I need to be given the upload rights. Meanwhile The latest perl-Error update fixed the problem, as expected. Vielen Dank. -David -- Prob

Broken git difftool, perhaps related to recent Perl changes

2015-03-12 Thread David Eisner
[I'm using 32-bit Cygwin (1.7.35) on a Win7 64-bit system.] I now get the following error when I run 'git difftool': $ git difftool Can't locate Error.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14/i686-cygwin-threads-64int /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.14/i

Re: Screen Documenation

2014-09-04 Thread David Eisner
list output ("C-a i" and "C-a w" respectively) would appear at the bottom of my mintty window, rather than in the title bar. With 4.2.1-3, they have returned to the title bar, as desired. Thanks again. -David On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 2:39 AM, Andrew Schulman wrote: >> David

Screen Documenation

2014-09-03 Thread David Eisner
I don't see a man page or info page for GNU Screen anymore. I seem to recall that both were distributed with screen in the past, but I may be mistaken. Is this intentional, or am I missing something? Thanks. -David -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Withdrawing from the project

2014-07-31 Thread David Eisner
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > Felly hir, a diolch am yr holl bysgod And: So long and thanks for all the Cygwin. Seriously. Good luck in your future. -David -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Docum

Re: Unable to initialize fd 0 for /dev/tty1

2010-09-06 Thread David Eisner
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: > Has anyone seen this before? It happens just often enough to be really Yes, with gitk: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-09/msg00037.html -David -- David Eisner     http://cradle.brokenglass.com -- Problem reports: h

gitk problem with cygwin.dll v1.7.7-1

2010-09-01 Thread David Eisner
t typing "git .." and see this instead: $glogout Then I have to kill the window, and start a new shell. It could be BLODA, I suppose, but at first gloss I don't see any unusual DLLs loaded when examining the wish84.exe process in Sysinternals Process Explorer. -David -- David

Re: Fortune and the "fortune startrek" command

2010-06-22 Thread David Eisner
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > You're exaggerating.  Most of the time when maintainers receive private Not by much. When Gregg had the temerity to even suggest informing a package maintainer, you threw a public tantrum. Are you aware how obnoxious you sound to oth

Re: Cygwin visual brand

2010-05-18 Thread David Eisner
amba/2010-May/155883.html [3] http://samba.org/ -- David Eisner http://cradle.brokenglass.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Cygwin visual brand

2010-05-18 Thread David Eisner
n't strike me as particularly complex). Bit it should be a simple layout that looks good. B. New Logo - Berthold Barth's Offer Does the rejection apply to an updated logo, too? -David [1] http://cygwin.codecamel.com/ [2] http://www.cygwin.com/ -- David Eisner http://cradle.broke

Re: Cygwin visual brand

2010-05-18 Thread David Eisner
Yes, we would indeed welcome an updated logo, Berthold. We're in a time crunch right now, but at some time in the near future we'll get back to you with some thoughts on what we'd like, and maybe we can reach a consensus. At that point some initial sketches / proposals would b

Re: Cygwin visual brand

2010-05-11 Thread David Eisner
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Alex Leigh wrote: > Why not just use the "cyg-" prefix, like the cygstart and cygpath > tools already do? Something like "cygsetup", "cygpackage", > "cygpackman", etc. I think these both communicate clearly the purpose > of the program and are short to type. I'd v

Re: Cygwin visual brand

2010-05-10 Thread David Eisner
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Klaus Grue wrote: > I liked the proposal of David Eisner (http://cygwin.codecamel.com/). At Just to clarify, I had nothing to do with that page. The credit goes to Brent Kerr. See the original message here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-03/msg00700.h

Re: Cygwin visual brand

2010-05-10 Thread David Eisner
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Berthold Barth wrote: > PS: On the subject of relevance: Good design (visuals, workings, user > experience) is widely accepted to improve the users' perception of the > functionality. Beautiful things work better. Even if the new design I couldn't agree more, and

Re: Patch, diff, and line-endings

2010-03-17 Thread David Eisner
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 5:00 PM, David Eisner wrote: > Cygwin versions (2.8.7 and 2.5.8 respectively).  When I get a chance, > I'll try the newer versions on Linux and see what happens. Also works fine on Linux with patch 2.5.8 (and diff 2.9 -- version 2.8.7 was never a stable relea

Re: Patch, diff, and line-endings

2010-03-16 Thread David Eisner
ar basis. In any case, we're using Eclipse and it happily applies patches with CRLF's in them. So at this point it's academic. I'd still like to know what's going on, though. -David -- David Eisner http://cradle.brokenglass.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwi

Patch, diff, and line-endings

2010-03-16 Thread David Eisner
4, and it worked fine, with both unix- and dos-style line endings. -David -- David Eisner http://cradle.brokenglass.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe

Re: Install Problem

2002-01-31 Thread David Eisner
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Randall R Schulz wrote: > David, > > The check-box is the download or install _with source_ option. > I feel like an idiot. For some reason I got it into my head that I had to check that box to select the package for download. Thanks. -David -- Unsubscribe info:

Install Problem

2002-01-30 Thread David Eisner
a subset of the packages, I still don't have space for all the source packages. I'm going to try deleting the src tarballs after step 1), but before step 2), and see what happens. But in the mean time: am I missing something? Thanks in advance. -David ---