From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11854 invoked by alias); 13 Jan 2014 18:44:53 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 11844 invoked by uid 89); 13 Jan 2014 18:44:52 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,NO_DNS_FOR_FROM,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: etr-usa.com Received: from etr-usa.com (HELO etr-usa.com) (130.94.180.135) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 13 Jan 2014 18:44:50 +0000 Received: (qmail 31267 invoked by uid 13447); 13 Jan 2014 18:44:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO [172.20.0.42]) ([68.35.121.157]) (envelope-sender ) by 130.94.180.135 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 13 Jan 2014 18:44:48 -0000 Message-ID: <52D43422.70107@etr-usa.com> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 18:44:00 -0000 From: Warren Young User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl? References: <52D424E6.7010105@etr-usa.com> <20140113182252.GB7186@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> In-Reply-To: <20140113182252.GB7186@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-01/txt/msg00118.txt.bz2 On 1/13/2014 11:22, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > In retrospect, it would have potentially made sense to use the same > versions and packaging for the 64-bit as for the 32-bit. That might > have minimized this type of problem. An argument could be made that since these helper programs are not core to groff's mission, groff does not literally *depend* on Perl. That is, if Perl is missing, groff doesn't stop running. That argument feels lawyerly to me, though. If the scripts are extracted into a separate package, I'll be installing it. I wish I'd known about groffer long ago. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple