X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,EXECUTABLE_URI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <37c66961aeaf7c4b1252db53d4da09ad.squirrel@webmail.charite.de> In-Reply-To: <4AAFAF04.6000300@cygwin.com> References: <4AAFAF04.6000300@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:28:18 +0200 Subject: Re: setup.exe: How specify web proxy by command line parameters From: "Dr. Christoph Gille" To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.20RC1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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 -> 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? 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. 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? Many thanks again Christoph -- 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