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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:31:51 -0400
From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Running fontforge.exe does nothing
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David Spector wrote:
> Dave and Ralph,
> 
> Thanks for your quick responses and help.
> 
> That did it. I can now run fontforge. Thanks again!
> 
> (Surely cygwin packaging could have been done similar to the Make model 
> so a single "install the latest fontforge" command would automatically 
> install cygwin, x windows, and all necessary libraries, with nothing 
> unnecesary? It seems weird to have to spend hours of realtime to get the 
> advice necessary to get an ordinary program running, not to mention 
> having to use two different diagnostic tools, cygcheck and the module 
> search page.)

Cygwin packaging is "done similar to the Make model" in that packages
know what their dependencies are and will automatically add those to
the list of packages to install.

I'm not sure where you got "fontforge" but it's not part of what's
distributed with Cygwin.  If you visited <http://cygwin.com/packages/>
and searched for it, this would be evident to you.  The fact that some
external source for 'fontforge' does not magically do what you want
with 'setup.exe' should not be that surprising to you, at least once
you armed with the knowledge of what you're doing.

As for the using both <http://cygwin.com/packages/> and 'cygcheck', once
you have 'cygcheck', you don't need <http://cygwin.com/packages/>.  But
the latter is nice when you don't have the former.  And actually, 'cygcheck
-p' just wraps the web functionality into a convenient command-line tool.
So there's really nothing weird about it.

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