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Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:57:02 -0500
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  On 12/14/2010 04:21 AM, Andy Koppe wrote:
> Cygwin Ports, at http://sourceware.org/cygwinports. A quite amazing 
> repository of additional Cygwin packages, all maintained by Yaakov.
>
> Thanks to recent improvements to Cygwin's setup.exe by Jon Turney, the 
> timestamp hack shown on the Ports website is no longer needed, i.e. 
> the steps required now are:
>
> 1. Download the latest Cygwin setup.exe from http://cygwin.com.
>
> 2. Launch setup.exe with the -X flag (for allowing unsigned 
> repositories). A convenient way to do this is to create a setup.exe 
> shortcut and add the -X to its target.
>
> 3. Add and select ftp://sourceware.org/pub/cygwinports or one of its 
> mirrors (http://sourceware.org/mirrors.html) in the mirror list. 
> (Official mirrors and Ports ones can be selected at the same time; 
> just hold Ctrl while doing so. Unfortunately there's currently no way 
> to tell apart different repositories on the same mirror, but Jon is 
> working on that as well.)
>
> 4. Select the packages of your choice and install.
>
> Ports issues should be discussed on the cygwin-ports-general mailing 
> list.
Thanks for the explanation. I'm working on a Perl script to gather 
information about systems and store it in a MySQL database. As such I 
can't always be sure that Cygwin (thus Perl and even DBI, DBD and MySQL) 
will be there. Installing DBI and DBD is pretty simply with cpan and to 
me Cygwin's a no brainer. But having to install a port of the 
mysql-client stuff seems like hacking a bit to far. Any particular 
reason why mysql-client is not an official (perhaps optionally 
installed) part of Cygwin by now?

I remember working with this a while back (years back actually) and 
there was a separate mysql package that somebody put together (probably 
from cygports). I just would have thought that by now it would have been 
put into Cygwin in a more official manner.

Any thoughts about how to do this without Cygwin (I know, not Cygwin 
related then and I'd probably need to get some sort of Perl - can you 
say ActiveState! Yuck - and install some Windows based mysql libs or 
something like that... Yuck. Cygwin's just so much nicer. Wish mysql was 
simply YA Cygwin package).
-- 
Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
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