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Add curl to the list of required cygwin packages to avoid issues with Windows' curl #6142
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I think this is probably the way it'll have to go - two things which ought to be checked:
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I've tried this and it's not pulled by
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The last commit makes |
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Thanks, @kit-ty-kate! I think the additional code for |
ah interesting, so should we just wait for Microsoft to fix this? I'm not sure how frequent are their updates though |
I don't know what the policy (or if it's published), but the current version installed is from May 2024, so it's at least happened once recently! The problem with "forcing" Cygwin's I just had a closer look at the Lines 1504 to 1516 in 6effccc
would want altering so that even with an internal installation it does the depext check at: Line 1626 in 6effccc
would automatically add the new packages - i.e. doing it in |
It does but i personally view it as a feature. As far as i know we currently have no way to update cygwin itself except by running the setup.exe binary itself and give all the correct paths to it, or by installing a depext. I feel like having |
Yes, indeed - I think re-running setup for the internal Cygwin installation is a good idea .. but, as you note, it needs |
Converted to draft as i think the original issue is better fixed by #6168. However i'm keeping this around as we might need want to think about the upgrade mechanism again at some point |
Fixes #6120
Backported in opam 2.2 by #6143