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add documentation of MSYS variable settings #152
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Indeed: $ pacman -Ql msys2-runtime
msys2-runtime /usr/
msys2-runtime /usr/bin/
msys2-runtime /usr/bin/chattr.exe
msys2-runtime /usr/bin/cygcheck.exe
msys2-runtime /usr/bin/cygpath.exe
msys2-runtime /usr/bin/cygwin-console-helper.exe
msys2-runtime /usr/bin/dumper.exe
msys2-runtime /usr/bin/gencat.exe
msys2-runtime /usr/bin/getconf.exe
msys2-runtime /usr/bin/getfacl.exe
msys2-runtime /usr/bin/kill.exe
msys2-runtime /usr/bin/ldd.exe
msys2-runtime /usr/bin/ldh.exe
msys2-runtime /usr/bin/locale.exe
msys2-runtime /usr/bin/lsattr.exe
msys2-runtime /usr/bin/minidumper.exe
msys2-runtime /usr/bin/mkgroup.exe
msys2-runtime /usr/bin/mkpasswd.exe
msys2-runtime /usr/bin/mount.exe
msys2-runtime /usr/bin/msys-2.0.dll
msys2-runtime /usr/bin/passwd.exe
msys2-runtime /usr/bin/pldd.exe
msys2-runtime /usr/bin/ps.exe
msys2-runtime /usr/bin/regtool.exe
msys2-runtime /usr/bin/setfacl.exe
msys2-runtime /usr/bin/setmetamode.exe
msys2-runtime /usr/bin/ssp.exe
msys2-runtime /usr/bin/strace.exe
msys2-runtime /usr/bin/tzset.exe
msys2-runtime /usr/bin/umount.exe
msys2-runtime /usr/libexec/
msys2-runtime /usr/libexec/getprocaddr32.exe
msys2-runtime /usr/libexec/getprocaddr64.exe
msys2-runtime /usr/share/
msys2-runtime /usr/share/cygwin/
msys2-runtime /usr/share/cygwin/cygwin.ldif
msys2-runtime /usr/share/doc/
msys2-runtime /usr/share/doc/Msys/
msys2-runtime /usr/share/doc/Msys/COPYING
msys2-runtime /usr/share/doc/Msys/cygserver.README
msys2-runtime /usr/share/doc/Msys/CYGWIN_LICENSE
msys2-runtime /usr/share/man/
msys2-runtime /usr/share/man/man2/
msys2-runtime /usr/share/man/man3/
msys2-runtime /usr/share/man/man3/regex.3.gz
msys2-runtime /usr/share/man/man5/
msys2-runtime /usr/share/man/man7/
msys2-runtime /usr/share/man/man7/regex.7.gz There is only documentation about FWIW I would be in favor of putting the documentation somewhere on https://www.msys2.org/, maybe next to https://www.msys2.org/docs/ci/, i.e. somewhere around here: |
I notice the docs are now being built in msys2-runtime. Regardless, would it be acceptable to "copy and paste" the env variable docs and do some editing on them for the website, or is there some copyright concern where I should try to document them without lifting anything from the existing doc? |
Yes!
We first have to add patches to reflect that it is not
I do not see anything in the file, or in https://github.com/msys2/msys2-runtime/blob/msys2-3_3_2-release/winsup/doc/README, regarding a license, so I assume it is under the same license as https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html, which is also documented in https://github.com/msys2/msys2-runtime/blob/msys2-3_3_2-release/winsup/doc/legal.xml:
We do not plan on "copying or distributing" the entire documentation on the website, though, so I think that you might want to copy that notice to the top of whatever version of |
I wonder if we could adjust msys2-runtime to allow both names everywhere instead, so we are closer to cygwin again. In our meetup in April we decided to try moving closer to cygwin where possible. (unless there are any downsides...) |
I wasn't part of that meetup, but FWIW I like that goal very much.
I think that would make a ton of sense, especially when one defines the precedence |
This is a proposal of something I want to add somewhere, but haven't figured out exactly how/where. I want to make documentation of the☹️ (
MSYS
environment variable options that differ from upstream's https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html. I'm responsible for two of them nowwinjitdebug
which I went into detail about using on #116, and nownonativeinnerlinks
which doesn't really merit its own page). I'd almost want to patch the docs in msys2-runtime to document new flags, but as far as I know nothing's done with that to put it anywhere a user's likely to find it./cc @dscho as Git for Windows either already has something like this or would benefit from it also.
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