From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Update CoreUtils
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 14:57:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5370E07E.4020003@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <536FCB2E.5020304@towo.net>
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On 05/11/2014 01:10 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>
> Am 11.05.2014 18:42, schrieb Steven Penny:
>> current Cygwin version is 8.15
>> http://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/coreutils
>>
>> 8.16 was released over 2 years ago
>> http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils
>>
>> MSYS2 is already using 8.22
>> http://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages/blob/master/coreutils/PKGBUILD
>>
>> Can we get an update? I can create a build if needed.
> The current version of `expand` is not UTF-8 aware (and thus garbles
> output).
> If that's fixed upstream (which I don't know), I would strongly
> appreciate an update, too.
Upstream does not handle multibyte locales very well. It is a much
bigger problem than just expand, and while some distros like Fedora have
provided downstream hacks that attempt to provide UTF-8, I am not very
willing to port them to cygwin if they aren't in a shape to push
upstream first (particularly since cygwin's wchar_t is a different width
than glibc, and therefore the downstream patches for Linux may fail to
work on cygwin without a lot of tweaking).
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-12 14:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-11 16:42 Steven Penny
2014-05-11 19:10 ` Thomas Wolff
2014-05-12 14:57 ` Eric Blake [this message]
2014-05-12 14:53 ` Eric Blake
2014-05-12 22:01 ` Steven Penny
2014-05-13 8:29 ` Christopher Faylor
2014-05-13 12:46 ` Steven Penny
2014-05-13 13:09 ` Peter Rosin
2014-05-13 15:04 ` Steven Penny
2014-05-13 15:05 ` Christopher Faylor
2014-05-13 18:36 ` Steven Penny
2014-05-13 18:47 ` Chris J. Breisch
2014-05-13 18:52 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2014-05-13 19:16 ` Eric Blake
2014-05-13 21:11 ` Steven Penny
2014-05-13 19:43 ` Christopher Faylor
2014-05-13 23:26 ` Christopher Faylor
2014-05-14 1:51 ` Steven Penny
2014-05-14 3:01 ` Christopher Faylor
2014-05-31 13:29 ` PolarStorm
2014-05-29 17:45 ` David Conrad
2014-05-29 17:48 ` Christopher Faylor
2014-05-29 23:41 ` Steven Penny
2014-05-30 1:23 ` Chris J. Breisch
2014-05-30 1:42 ` Steven Penny
2014-05-30 9:05 ` Christopher Faylor
2014-05-30 16:19 ` Chris J. Breisch
2014-05-13 13:31 ` Christopher Faylor
2014-05-13 14:52 ` Chris J. Breisch
2014-05-13 19:17 ` Christian Franke
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