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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:38:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 11:24:01AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 10:05:21AM -0400, Larry Hall wrote:
> >>>At 04:08 AM 6/16/2005, you wrote:
> >>>>>For this type of problem, you'll want to use the "Setup Package
> >>>>>Search" page <http://cygwin.com/packages/>.
> >>>>
> >>>>Great! This is a great utility.  This could maybe be even be integrated
> >>>>in a tool.
> >>>
> >>>True.  I guess 'cygcheck' would be a good choice here.
> >>
> >>...and if the mailing list search wasn't so abysmal, you might even
> >>find a request from me for a patch to cygcheck to add that
> >>functionality.
> >
> >If it's ok to make cygcheck depend on wget, see
> ><http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-06/msg00726.html>.
>
> Sorry but it's not ok.  This should really just be part of cygcheck.

What I meant is to have cygcheck invoke those commands and display the
output, transparently to the user.  Cygcheck already calls 'id' in this
manner...  Or did you mean that the wget dependency is not ok?  I assume
the same applies to perl and curl, then.  This would involve adding http
connection capability to cygcheck...

> OTOH, how hard would it be to just have cygcheck open up a browser
> window pointing to the correct location?

Pretty easy, either via cygstart or by replicating the cygstart
ShellExecute logic inside cygcheck...  The advantage of the text-only
approach is uniformity with the rest of cygcheck's output.
	Igor
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