From: Craig Miller <cvmiller@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Request update of TCL and expect packages
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:40:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM_o6DV9FeN=6rZjNFnK9D6Ot+zkEEPyE5Z_t01+-vWNiPkDuw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EA86D31.5040206@gmail.com>
Thank you for the additional information, Marco.
If it is of any assistance to Christopher Faylor, I believe the
tcl/expect and dependent packages have been upgraded on sourceware
<ftp://sourceware.org/pub/cygwinports/portslist.txt>, perhaps the
upgrade will not be that time consuming.
regards,
Craig...
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/26/2011 6:50 PM, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
>>
>> On 25 October 2011 13:37, Craig Miller wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello Chris Sutcliffe& Christopher Faylor,
>>
>> Not sure how I can help with this, TCL and expect are cgf's domain.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Chris
>>
>
> After chatting with Craig I dug the archives and
> I presume the main issue is how to upgrade tcl/tk
> and all the packages that depend froms it
> assuming that everything works and nothing is broken.
> The problem was already mentioned long time ago
>
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-09/msg00311.html
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-09/msg00389.html
>
> and it is one of the most recorrent ones.
>
> There are currently 19 packages depending from tcltk,
> "brltty" is probably the most sensitive from this point of view.
>
> The separation of insight from gdb seems one of the key step
> that cgf is taking to solve this long time problem
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-08/msg00413.html
>
> but I have no idea wich are the other blocking points.
>
> About expect Cgf was looking long time ago a volunteer
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-08/msg00458.html
> so this package will likely wait the tcltk upgrade
>
> Regards
> Marco
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-27 18:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-25 17:37 Craig Miller
2011-10-26 16:50 ` Chris Sutcliffe
2011-10-26 20:27 ` Marco Atzeri
2011-10-27 18:30 ` Dave
2011-10-27 18:43 ` Craig Miller
2011-10-27 20:07 ` Charles Wilson
2011-10-27 20:09 ` Charles Wilson
2011-10-27 18:40 ` Craig Miller [this message]
2011-10-27 20:11 ` Charles Wilson
[not found] ` <CAM_o6DVj7UAuit0FNqMhQLe1=GU2ft_cphmcmBQ+PRRPuCBrUA@mail.gmail.com>
2011-10-28 19:32 ` Craig Miller
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