setup and colons in filenames

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Fri Oct 27 15:20:00 GMT 2017


On 10/27/2017 9:44 AM, Jon Turney wrote:
> I've worked on [1] a bit so it now contains some instructions how to do 
> this, rather than the previous state of affairs, which was "genini 
> exists, work it out yourself"
> 
> [1] https://cygwin.com/package-server.html#overlay
> 
>>> (*) Or better: A user version of calm, packaged in the distro.
> 
> Um, we have had this for a while [2], mksetupini is the tool to use if 
> you don't need all the extra stuff which calm does.
> 
> [2] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2016-07/msg00047.html
> 
> I guess mksetupini could have more friendly defaults to make the command 
> lines in [1] shorter if that really scares people off (e.g. default 
> --inifile to stdout, --releasearea to '.' and to 
> --okmissing=required-package (then need a way to turn it back on, though))

I don't see why this should be necessary.  You've written out the 
command line for people to copy and paste.

With [1] available, I think it should be OK to rip out ScanFindVisitor.

Ken



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