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On 09/15/2009 12:28 PM, Dr. Christoph Gille wrote:
> Hi Larry,
>
>>> http://www.bioinformatics.org/strap/ which uses Cygwin.  Cygwin
>>> My problem: I need to specify the Web-proxy.
>> Sounds like you want Cygwin 1.7's setup.exe ->  <http://cygwin.com/setup-1.7.exe>
> Yes, that is what I need. It is great!
> There is also the text search field that I missed so many years!
> Why is it not yet the default setup.exe?

It will be when 1.7 is released.  That will happen "soon".

> I would prefere a stable URL without the version number in the URL, something like
> http://cygwin.com/setup-current.exe
> Otherwise my program would need to probe several URLs with increasing
> version number.

When 1.7 is released, the "setup-1.7.exe" link will become 
<http://cygwin.com/setup.exe>
as Chuck said.

> Using this improved setup.exe there would be only one user interaction
> left: The user needs to mark the closest mirror. I do not think that this
> could be done automatically at the moment or what
> do you think?

Closest mirror?  I'm not sure what you mean by this.  'setup.exe' does not 
require
this as a setting.  Actually, there is no such concept.  You need to specify 
a mirror
to work with but you can do that with '-s'.

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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
 >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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