Chad Gorshing's Blog

Just recently there was a post to the cygwin mailing list, I typically won’t post items like this, but I felt this was an exception to the rule.

Hi,

I’d like to introduce “MinTTY”, a terminal emulator for Cygwin that I’ve been working on for a while. It is based on the terminal emulation and Windows frontend parts of PuTTY 0.60 by Simon Tatham and his team.

Unlike PuTTYcyg, MinTTY discards PuTTY’s networking functions, which are already convered by Cygwin’s ssh and telnet packages. This results in simpler configuration, a leaner interface and small code size. MinTTY’s most obvious difference to rxvt is its native Windows interface and configuration dialog.

More info, as well as the latest sources and binary can be found on the project page:

http://code.google.com/p/mintty

The MinTTY discussion group can be found at:

http://groups.google.com/group/mintty-discuss

I hope you’ll give MinTTY a try, and I’m looking forward to feedback and questions. Bug reports and feature requests can be sent via the issue tracker on the project page.

Regards,
Andy

I am using it currently; and quite honestly I think for an initial release it is quite good.

There are developers using Maven which decide, for some reason or another, not to use a repository manager. As time progresses on they realize they need something more robust in order to manage all there releases, or possibly the team begins to grow in size. No matter the reason, there are times when a local Maven repo needs to be converted to a managed repo.

Stuart McCulloch ran into this as well and wrote a blog post on how to accomplish this. One caveat is the scripts expect the machine to be a Linux flavor, I guess if you had Cygwin installed then this would still work on Windows (albeit I haven’t tried).

Now with the latest release (1.2.0.2 at the time of writing) Sonatype’s Nexus Repository Manager comes prepackaged with a set of tools. One of which is a repository converter tool. Refer to the user story for more information.