Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 00:12:12 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: New at the cygwin.com web site -- listing of available packages Message-ID: <20011107001212.A11754@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.21i This URL: http://cygwin.com/packages/ provides to a list of packages that are available in cygwin's latest and contrib areas. This list is generated from the list of files found in latest and setup and during the automatic creation of setup.ini. So, it should always be as up-to-date as setup.ini. This is basically a list of packages available via setup.exe, although since it lists all tar files available in the latest/contrib hierarchy. there may be more files presented than setup.exe is capable of downloading. Why? Because setup.exe only goes back to a "prev" version and there may be multiple older versions available in the package directory. So, don't be distressed if you see an old package but you can't download it via setup.exe. What this basically means is that the package maintainer hasn't been cleaning their directory of older files. This is the first step in making this info available via the web. The next step is to provide some kind of simple "grep the package list" facility. Stay tuned. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/