From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20593 invoked by alias); 25 Apr 2012 13:42:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 20461 invoked by uid 22791); 25 Apr 2012 13:42:11 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_WL,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_CG,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nihxwayout.hub.nih.gov (HELO nihxwayout.hub.nih.gov) (128.231.90.109) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:41:58 +0000 X-IronPortListener: Outbound_SMTP X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAJ7+l0+cKEcU/2dsb2JhbABFsUuBB4IJAQEBBBIoUQEIDQscAi8TJgEEGxqHbQuZZIRAnRWQFGMEjTaJVoUFiiiDBQ Received: from unknown (HELO NIHHT01.nih.gov) ([156.40.71.20]) by nihxwayout.hub.nih.gov with ESMTP; 25 Apr 2012 09:41:57 -0400 Received: from NIHMLBX02.nih.gov ([156.40.71.32]) by NIHHT01.nih.gov ([156.40.71.20]) with mapi; Wed, 25 Apr 2012 09:40:40 -0400 From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]" To: "cygwin-talk@cygwin.com" Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:42:00 -0000 Subject: RE: Updated: ed-1.6-1 Message-ID: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A20A6E562BB1@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-q2/txt/msg00017.txt.bz2 Christopher Faylor sent the following at Tuesday, April 24, 2012 10:36 AM >On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 06:26:00AM -0400, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: >>On 23 April 2012 19:45, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >>> On 2012-04-23 18:16, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>> >>>> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 06:44:23PM -0400, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) >>>> [E] wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Christopher Faylor wrote on Sunday, April 22, 2012 4:59 PM >>>>>> >>>>>> I've made a new version of ed available for installation. ?This vers= ion >>>>>> is a refresh from the currently released FSF version of this package. >>>>> >>>>> They're still updating ed!?!?! >>>> >>>> Heh. >>>> >>>> I was pretty surprised too. ?I couldn't believe I'd missed several >>>> revisions. >>>> >>>> Who in the world still uses ed? >>> >>> http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/misc/dindex/sys-apps/ed >>> http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/misc/rindex/sys-apps/ed >> >>The mksh testsuite requires ed to run successfully as well. > >I think Barry expressed my incredulity a little more clearly. > >I can believe that there are old configure scripts out there still using >ed but it's hard to believe that people are still uncovering enough >problems with ed to warrant multiple new releases. So then the next question is why did you check for an update? :-) The answer may provide hints for why it is still being updated. Perhaps the ongoing maintenance of ed and that cgf checks ed for updates are both examples of how diligent some maintainers are. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.