Re: [cygstart] optional double slash after scheme for file URIs

2014-08-05 Thread James Nylen
...but that doesn't handle UNC paths. It might be worth looking at how Chromium does this: https://github.com/scheib/chromium/blob/master/url/url_parse_file.cc On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 1:21 PM, James Nylen wrote: > Chrome and IE cope with these variants just fine: > > file:C:/Proj

Re: [cygstart] optional double slash after scheme for file URIs

2014-08-05 Thread James Nylen
Chrome and IE cope with these variants just fine: file:C:/Projects file:/C:/Projects file://C:/Projects file:///C:/Projects file:C:/Projects IE doesn't like more than 4 slashes, but Chrome doesn't mind. Your patch appears to only cover 0 or 2 slashes. How about something like this instead o

Command-line package manager: cyg-apt

2014-08-04 Thread James Nylen
Some of you may have heard of cyg-apt which is a command-line package manager for Cygwin. I and another developer have made extensive updates and fixes to cyg-apt, and gotten it working pretty well: https://github.com/nylen/cyg-apt Bug reports and patches welcome. I've tried to contact cjcormie