From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14358 invoked by alias); 25 Apr 2012 14:08:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 14349 invoked by uid 22791); 25 Apr 2012 14:08:53 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org (HELO mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org) (204.13.248.71) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:08:38 +0000 Received: from pool-98-110-183-154.bstnma.fios.verizon.net ([98.110.183.154] helo=cgf.cx) by mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SN2tZ-000GIS-B7 for cygwin-talk@cygwin.com; Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:08:37 +0000 Received: from localhost (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id A197113C076 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:08:36 -0400 (EDT) X-Mail-Handler: MailHop Outbound by DynDNS X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/mailhop/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX1/2D8fxokV9yJsEHKm2MpYX Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:08:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Updated: ed-1.6-1 Message-ID: <20120425140836.GA29333@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com References: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A20A6E562BB1@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A20A6E562BB1@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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/msg00018.txt.bz2 On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 09:40:39AM -0400, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >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 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. > >So then the next question is why did you check for an update? :-) Because I was going through my /netrel/src directory looking for updates and 'ed' comes after 'diffutils'. cgf