From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10249 invoked by alias); 27 Oct 2011 18:40:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 10228 invoked by uid 22791); 27 Oct 2011 18:40:49 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,TW_CG,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-gy0-f171.google.com (HELO mail-gy0-f171.google.com) (209.85.160.171) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:40:33 +0000 Received: by gyg13 with SMTP id 13so3600680gyg.2 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:40:32 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.43.51.69 with SMTP id vh5mr60286869icb.32.1319740832212; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:40:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.43.48.194 with HTTP; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:40:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4EA86D31.5040206@gmail.com> References: <4EA86D31.5040206@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:40:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Request update of TCL and expect packages From: Craig Miller To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 X-SW-Source: 2011-10/txt/msg00562.txt.bz2 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 , perhaps the upgrade will not be that time consuming. regards, Craig... On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Marco Atzeri wrot= e: > > On 10/26/2011 6:50 PM, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: >> >> On 25 October 2011 13:37, Craig Miller wrote: >>> >>> Hello Chris Sutcliffe& =A0 =A0Christopher 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 > > -- > Problem reports: =A0 =A0 =A0 http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: =A0 =A0 =A0http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- 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