From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 115206 invoked by alias); 21 Feb 2019 05:16:15 -0000 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 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 124574 invoked by uid 89); 21 Feb 2019 02:52:45 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,KAM_NUMSUBJECT,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=currency, exchange, upgraded, wire X-HELO: smtp-out-so.shaw.ca From: Brian Inglis Subject: Updated: units 2.18-1 Reply-To: Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca To: cygwin-announce@cygwin.com References: Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Message-ID: Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 05:16:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2019-02/txt/msg00015.txt.bz2 The following package has been upgraded in the Cygwin distribution: * units-2.18-1 The Units program converts quantities expressed in various scales to their equivalents in other scales. The units program can handle multiplicative scale changes as well as nonlinear conversions such as Fahrenheit to Celsius or wire gauge. Units comes with an annotated, extendable database defining nearly three thousand units. This release incorporates upstream changes to build more easily under Cygwin thanks to the upstream GNU maintainer Adrian Mariano, has new (hopefully longer term) free sources for currency exchange rates and metals prices, installs the updateable currency units file into /var/lib/units/, and changes the updater units_cur script appropriately. Users running the updater script regularly to keep the rates and prices current may have to make corresponding changes to its invocation or their environment. Significant additions include: * Added hyperbolic functions: sinh, cosh, tanh, asinh, acosh, atanh. * Added log to arbitrary integer bases: log3, log4, log72, etc. * Units can be redefined without a warning by adding '+' before the unit name in definitions.units. * Added support for CGS electromagnetic units with unit reductions to combinations of sqrt(grams), sqrt(centimeters) and seconds. This feature is activated using the -u option or UNITS_SYSTEM environment variable, which you can set to gaussian, esu, or emu to select one of three different CGS systems. * Added bitcoin to currency.units Some previous updates were skipped as the rates and prices sources became unavailable before release. See /usr/share/doc/units/NEWS for more details. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised.