X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:date:from:to:subject:message-id:reply-to :references:mime-version:content-type:in-reply-to; q=dns; s= default; b=w3383JOgzhW+4Im5hfKNiwThCcwMxXHaaozlsMaTWDD3G+Caz1jf6 +M+9wIGgGddsANzN/TGXY6zDE48eBS64ad1Q4fmoxncbpRXFUsy5YJe51YWO2JKG 6TyvTh9UlUNyn5sneTZPNxcQj8ShqO9pLwUb/9K7lQBQMG8Ll7mGBY= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:date:from:to:subject:message-id:reply-to :references:mime-version:content-type:in-reply-to; s=default; bh=UN2qDo4bOzhRova1icMTBpsUtrk=; b=VoCx5f+/VqkVrfyzHbyCY1/rn5/w wdob3AtfNHe4PIX1ApYJlctpDBqPGcYra7CglHIRU+boL1nuv3QECe8BoV4oT7ag JO5lD6LcjlgbTthqcZCmSEnvSstJBsCs4zF8WKAC6DJyrfVgxOi73SDzuoKilMQi 8/1CpzEZAHMqpek= 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 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Mail-Handler: Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse AT dyndns DOT com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX1/l7e0WZ/hiGISEFrB+znLD Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 13:15:44 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: What comes with Cygwin? Message-ID: <20130514171544.GA4016@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <51926146 DOT 7030006 AT etr-usa DOT com> <20130514164456 DOT GE3425 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <51926D6C DOT 8030900 AT etr-usa DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <51926D6C.8030900@etr-usa.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:59:24AM -0600, Warren Young wrote: >On 5/14/2013 10:44, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>I don't think the documentation should be considered the definitive >>source for this since it is likely to change over time and the >>documentation is likely to be out of date. > >It wouldn't be too hard to take this a few steps further and completely >automate the process of building that list. Then it could be a make >target in the docs, generating an .xml fragment file that's XIncluded >into the docs somewhere. > >You'd probably have to check the fragment into CVS and periodically >regenerate it on a Cygwin system, since you probably can't build it on >a Linux box, since it depends on being able to run cygcheck. > >The generator can date the output, too: "As of May 14, 2013..." Or, use setup.exe to check the "Base" category and find out immediately what's going to be installed. I don't see why it is important to have potentially out-of-date information listed in the documentation when you are going to be running setup.exe eventually anyway and you can get the definitive list there. If web access is really a must-have, another possibility would be to offer a category view in the cygwin package lister. Then the documentation could link to that. cgf -- 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