From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13265 invoked by alias); 27 Oct 2011 18:43:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 13251 invoked by uid 22791); 27 Oct 2011 18:43:34 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.3 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; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:43:20 +0000 Received: by iaen33 with SMTP id n33so4398950iae.2 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:43:19 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.42.244.133 with SMTP id lq5mr60361747icb.29.1319740999391; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:43:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.43.48.194 with HTTP; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:43:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4EA86D31.5040206@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:43:00 -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/msg00563.txt.bz2 Dave, This sounds like a not unreasonable solution (having 2 sets of tcl/expect packages). I can see that there might be a confusion factor for newbies, so it would be good to get a few more opinions. If it is acceptable, I would happily contribute/maintain the TCL 8.5, expect 5.45 packages. regards, Craig... On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Dave wrote: > On 10/26/2011 3:27 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote: >> >> 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 >> > I hope this isn't a dumb question... > > Since TCL is designed to support multiple versions installed simultaneous= ly, > and there are already quite a few Cygwin packages that have dependencies = on > various versions of libraries, why not have a new TCL85 and EXPECT545 > packages? Just leave all the other packages that depend on TCL8.4 alone? > Perhaps Mr. Miller would volunteer to be the Cygwin package owner for the= se > two new packages. Even if he were to abandon support, the situation would= be > better since we'd have >much< more modern versions of TCL/EXPECT for Cygw= in. > > > > > -- > 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