From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17969 invoked by alias); 15 Jun 2009 06:10:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 3540 invoked by uid 22791); 15 Jun 2009 04:49:06 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: Charles Wilson Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:10:00 -0000 Subject: New: run2-0.3.0-1 To: cygwin-announce@cygwin.com Message-Id: <20090615044857.64E0A3A795@heartbeat2.messagingengine.com> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-announce-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-announce-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin Mailing List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-announce@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2009-06/txt/msg00024.txt.bz2 The run2 package provides two utilities: 'run2' and 'checkX' (as the package is actually a renamed and updated successor to the now-obsoleted checkx package). The first utility is a more powerful replacement for the venerable 'run' utility that has long been a part of the cygwin distribution. The second is a test utility that detects whether an Xserver is active, and exits with an appropriate status value. 'run2' launches console programs while hiding any actual console (dos box) that may ordinarily be associated with them. In addition, 'run2' can: * set/modify environment variables before launching the target program * specify a start directory from which to launch the target * detect whether an X server is active or not, and launch one of two different targets -- with different command line arguments, environment settings, and startup dirs. 'run2' uses an external XML configuration file to control its own operation, and to specify the settings which should be applied to the target program(s). [[ compiled using gcc-3.4.4-999 ]] This release supports both cygwin-1.5 and cygwin-1.7. In the future, support for long filenames, wide chars/unicode filenames and xml configfile contents may be added, but only to a cygwin-1.7-specific version (PTC!) CHANGES since (checkx) 0.2.0 ============================ o Renamed package to reflect new focus and utility o Added new run2 utility o Almost complete rewrite Known Limitations ============================ o Doesn't properly use the new (really) long-filename APIs of cygwin-1.7 o Makes no attempt to handle wide characters, or national language or UTF-8 encodings -- neither in filenames to target applications to launch, nor in the contents of the configuration xml files. Known "Regressions" (or, stuff that the old run.exe could do, but that run2.exe can't) ============================ o Old run.exe could be renamed to, e.g., 'runemacs.exe' and would automatically launch 'emacs.exe' without requiring emacs.exe to appear in the argument list. run2.exe can't do that, and probably never will. o Old run.exe could be compiled with mingw or gcc -mno-cygwin At present, run2 is cygwin-only. Enough major surgery would be required to enable run2 to compile on mingw that I suspect it would be cleaner to create a mingw-run2 branch separate from the main run2 development, rather than clutter the code and build machinery with a bunch of #ifdefs and AM_CONDITIONALS. See the README file for more information. -- Charles Wilson volunteer checkx^H^H^H run2 maintainer for cygwin ==================================================================== To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain.com@cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sourceware.org/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL.