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Re: setup and colons in filenames


On Oct 27 11:20, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 10/27/2017 9:44 AM, Jon Turney wrote:
> > I've worked on [1] a bit so it now contains some instructions how to do
> > this, rather than the previous state of affairs, which was "genini
> > exists, work it out yourself"
> > 
> > [1] https://cygwin.com/package-server.html#overlay
> > 
> > > > (*) Or better: A user version of calm, packaged in the distro.
> > 
> > Um, we have had this for a while [2], mksetupini is the tool to use if
> > you don't need all the extra stuff which calm does.
> > 
> > [2] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2016-07/msg00047.html
> > 
> > I guess mksetupini could have more friendly defaults to make the command
> > lines in [1] shorter if that really scares people off (e.g. default
> > --inifile to stdout, --releasearea to '.' and to
> > --okmissing=required-package (then need a way to turn it back on,
> > though))
> 
> I don't see why this should be necessary.  You've written out the command
> line for people to copy and paste.
> 
> With [1] available, I think it should be OK to rip out ScanFindVisitor.
> 
> Ken

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