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:from:to:subject:date:message-id:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :mime-version; q=dns; s=default; b=TIrq+SjzVH0dUtpEwxvSh5gqG2vLV fCm3kwe5vA8BZlhAo00yxbCqShglgTSmxfHgNjUta3NU4g9P/ncOmtuHO/AAT9QP vXB8fEkVn5tIfokI71xZYZFgK7Ss+CcX1P2eOpASxe+zY+IK9AT5N1wk0kOTfBJK lY/lxCkTpp6+U8= 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:from:to:subject:date:message-id:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :mime-version; s=default; bh=PG0fwA6dirHVCu7Z5Z6zjHY+SAQ=; b=h04 e9Lj6zsf92JqMhHMjdYBMJANR0XVy3D8JA/JaePFeTHxG3aJrpJfodDO1SRmkRjg exDDLvmIxidWsofIJQwaBzkbrbYxEsG+vE45CtaYFt6Ts89lkMs3qdcLKqMOXJ8A 8pA+qcNhZrG/+JEd2qIOKH2QsFIDkLUJVgCmdzLs= 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: nihxway5out.hub.nih.gov X-IronPortListener: Outbound_SMTP X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AqYEAKsKdVScKEeI/2dsb2JhbABbhDTGF4kEAoEkAQEBAQEDeoQDAQEEEihPAgEIIhQQHxMlAgQbGogesG6gegEBAQEGAQEBAQEdjS8Bgxo4gy6BHwWSYwWMFIE1hxKOVYN8gj+BAgEBAQ X-IPAS-Result: AqYEAKsKdVScKEeI/2dsb2JhbABbhDTGF4kEAoEkAQEBAQEDeoQDAQEEEihPAgEIIhQQHxMlAgQbGogesG6gegEBAQEGAQEBAQEdjS8Bgxo4gy6BHwWSYwWMFIE1hxKOVYN8gj+BAgEBAQ From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]" To: "cygwin AT cygwin DOT com" Subject: RE: Is there a tool for viewing all cygwin/GNU Software submissions Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 23:08:26 +0000 Message-ID: <6CF2FC1279D0844C9357664DC5A08BA20F65FBCD@msgb09.nih.gov> References: <4BFB33271657464D97FFF746A1106D4A AT HPDV7TNotebook> In-Reply-To: <4BFB33271657464D97FFF746A1106D4A@HPDV7TNotebook> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id sAPN8lM3000812 Arthur Schwarz sent the following at Tuesday, November 25, 2014 5:49 PM >Is there a general tool that will allow someone to see the definition of >all software in cygwin and allow browsing of libraries for content? If >there is not, how can I go about creating one (any ideas)? > >What I would like to see for executables is a setup-like tool to pretty >print information on all available software without going through setup. >Where a library is included, I would like to see something about the >routines included in the library. > >Info does a great job of showing information on executables which have >been downloaded (although its presentation format is really bad), but >provides no insight on available but not downloaded software. 'setup' >provides a thumbnail description of all available software, but you have >to use it in conjunction with the internet, and viewing and searching >is laborious. And I don't know if there is anything which provides some >brief information on library contents. I think for libraries you have to >go to the provided application developer documentation or use one of the >tools to read the library contents. > >So, anything there or anything I can do (to make it 'there'). To see package descriptions without setup, you can look inside setup.ini. In addition to the short description (sdesc) displayed by setup, it has a long description (ldesc), though sometimes that is just a repeat of sdesc. The requires line can help one from downloading far more than one wishes. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- 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