X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,EXECUTABLE_URI,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4AAFCDC3.6070001@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:24:19 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: setup.exe: How specify web proxy by command line parameters References: <4AAFAF04 DOT 6000300 AT cygwin DOT com> <37c66961aeaf7c4b1252db53d4da09ad DOT squirrel AT webmail DOT charite DOT de> In-Reply-To: <37c66961aeaf7c4b1252db53d4da09ad.squirrel@webmail.charite.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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 -> > 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 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'. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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