[ANNOUNCEMENT] Cygwin package search down for a while

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Fri Aug 23 20:08:00 GMT 2013


On 8/23/2013 3:22 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 01:27:13PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> I'm working on bringing Cygwin's package search into the multi-arch
>> world so it will be down for a while while I tweak things.
>>
>> It should be back up by Saturday so please don't panic unless it
>> seems broken after Saturday afternoon.
>
> This went much faster than I expected.  The new package interface allows
> you to switch between x86 and x86_64 when searching for or displaying
> packages.
>
> This interface now uses javascript to control which arch is displayed.

Very cool!  Unfortunately, though expected, the Firefox Cygwin Package
search plug-in now needs to be updated to match...

<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cygwin-packages/?src=search>

I wonder if the author has a Thursday available sometime soon. ;-)

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Larry

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