From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7180 invoked by alias); 16 Jun 2013 23:00:42 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 7145 invoked by uid 89); 16 Jun 2013 23:00:42 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from localhost (HELO localhost.localdomain) (127.0.0.1) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:00:41 +0000 Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Charles Wilson Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:00:00 -0000 Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: run2-0.4.2-1 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: X-SW-Source: 2013-06/txt/msg00335.txt.bz2 The run2 package provides two utilities: 'run2' and 'checkX' (as the package is actually a renamed and updated successor to the now-obsoleted checkx package). The first utility is a more powerful replacement for the venerable 'run' utility that has long been a part of the cygwin distribution. The second is a test utility that detects whether an Xserver is active, and exits with an appropriate status value. 'run2' launches console programs while hiding any actual console (dos box) that may ordinarily be associated with them. In addition, 'run2' can: * set/modify environment variables before launching the target program * specify a start directory from which to launch the target * detect whether an X server is active or not, and launch one of two different targets -- with different command line arguments, environment settings, and startup dirs. 'run2' uses an external XML configuration file to control its own operation, and to specify the settings which should be applied to the target program(s). CHANGES since 0.4.0-1 ============================ o Avoid program compatibility issues on W7. See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2012-02/msg00022.html o Fix several bugs in canonicalizing ~ paths o First 64bit build Known Limitations ============================ o Makes no attempt to handle wide characters, or national language or UTF-8 encodings -- neither in filenames to target applications to launch, nor in the contents of the configuration xml files. Future Plans (PTC!) ============================ o support for long filenames o support for wide chars/unicode filenames o use ustr library for more/all string handling, to support: o wide chars/unicode in xml config file contents -- Charles Wilson volunteer run2 maintainer for cygwin ==================================================================== To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain.com@cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sourceware.org/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -- 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