From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17352 invoked by alias); 25 Oct 2011 16:19:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 17337 invoked by uid 22791); 25 Oct 2011 16:19:08 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-iy0-f171.google.com (HELO mail-iy0-f171.google.com) (209.85.210.171) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:18:36 +0000 Received: by iaen33 with SMTP id n33so928415iae.2 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:18:36 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.42.156.2 with SMTP id x2mr1098586icw.13.1319559515621; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:18:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.43.48.194 with HTTP; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:18:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4EA61179.8030109@gmail.com> <4EA65BCF.9070805@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:19:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: version 5.45 of expect/tcl 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/msg00520.txt.bz2 Hi Marco, I am sure someone else could update the expect package, but I have been following cygwin for a year now (support expect-lite on cygwin) and saw no updates. There is functionality in the newer expect that expect-lite takes advantage of, and it would be nice to have a newer version in the distro. I have included in the package the tcl lib for 8.5. It will get installed when this package is installed. I hope that helps, Craig... On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Craig Miller wrote: > > Hi Marco, > I am sure someone else could update the expect package, but I have been f= ollowing cygwin for a year now (support expect-lite on cygwin) and saw no u= pdates. There is functionality in the newer expect that expect-lite takes a= dvantage of, and it would be nice to have a newer version in the distro. > I have included in the package the tcl lib for 8.5. It will get installed= when this package is installed. > I hope that helps, > Craig... > > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:48 AM, Marco Atzeri wr= ote: >> >> On 10/25/2011 3:31 AM, Craig Miller wrote: >>> >>> Hello All, >>> >>> I am the author of expect-lite which relies heavily >>> on expect. The version in the cygwin repository is quite old (from >>> 2003). I have compiled a modern version of expect (v 5.45) based on TCL >>> 8.5. >>> >>> Expect, originally written by Don Libes, is a program that "talks" to >>> other interactive programs according to a script. Following the script, >>> Expect knows what can be expected from a program and what the correct >>> response should be. An interpreted language provides branching and >>> high-level control structures to direct the dialogue. In addition, the >>> user can take control and interact directly when desired, afterward >>> returning control to the script. >>> >>> This is a direct replacement for the 2003 version, and can be found at: >>> http://www.makikiweb.com/cygwin/expect/ >>> >>> Please accept this into the cygwin repository. >>> >>> thanks, >>> >>> Craig... >>> >> >> I suspect our expect package maintainer (aka cgf) is capable to >> update the package by himself. >> Moreover the tcltk package in cygwin is based around 8.4 not 8.5. >> >> 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