Re: Updated: ed-1.6-1

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>]

On Apr 24 10:35, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 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 version
> >>>>> 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.

Maybe it's just some code cleanup to convert ed into a ful-fledged
GUI editor...


Corinna