Re: [Mingw-users] Problems locating mingw programs for download

[Ian P. <ia...@un...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Marshall [mailto:kei...@us...]
> 
> > Here's an example, I want to view a man page but
> > there is no mingw man,
> 
> Eh?  It shouldn't need more than one guess; what do you think the
> released package "Snapshot:man-1.6-mingw-beta-1" might provide?  (And
> yes, that is clearly visible, even with the new "concise" style of the
> SF downloads page).

Apparently not that clearly visible because I didn't spot it. I think the
problem is that the first column is titled "Package" so one naturally looks
down that column to try to find the package one is looking for. In the case
of man that column just says "Snapshot". Even in the release column,
everything else with mingw in the name is formatted "mingw-xxx"
(mingw32-make, mingw-utils, mingw-catgets, etc.) so scanning down the list
one tends to look to the right for the name and it's easy to miss this one
which is inconsistently named "man-1.6-mingw...".

Of course a search for "man" on the page probably would've been a good thing
to try :-)

MinGW Runtime seems more screwed up with Package = "Previous" and Release =
"MinGW Runtime", which seems exactly the wrong way round. Apart from these
two the package column says what the package is.

Thanks to you and Earnie for all the replies - you pretty much covered
everything.

Ian