From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21331 invoked by alias); 15 Aug 2008 17:14:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 21226 invoked by uid 22791); 15 Aug 2008 17:14:08 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from pool-72-74-94-108.bstnma.fios.verizon.net (HELO ednor.cgf.cx) (72.74.94.108) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:13:15 +0000 Received: by ednor.cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 6672617BF28; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:13:13 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:14:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Anyone want to be the "expect" package maintainer? Message-ID: <20080815171313.GA30160@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2008-08/txt/msg00120.txt.bz2 Volker's recent email about packages which still use /usr/{info,man} reminded me about "expect". I haven't updated the expect package in many years. It used to be based on a hacked version of expect from the sourceware.org src repository but that version has disappeared. I asked the person responsible for the disappearance if they would like to become the new package maintainer for Cygwin and they said yes but that never materialized. The definitive sources for expect are here: http://expect.nist.gov/ . I don't know if expect will work well with cygwin or not. I can dig out the patches that were added (some by me when dinosaurs still prowled the earth) if anyone is interested in rolling a new package. This is, of course, compounded by the problems of the almost-mingww version of tcl which expect relies upon. The whole tcl/tk situation with cygwin is a bit of a mess. In theory, I guess there is no reason why expect couldn't just rely on whatever tcl*.dll is installed in /usr/bin. Please send email to the cygwin list if you're interested so that this can be coordinated. cgf