[ANNOUNCEMENT] Test: dash 0.5.12-3 (TEST)

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Test: dash 0.5.12-3 (TEST)

[Cygwin dash Co-Maintainer via Cygwin-announce]

The following test packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:

* dash	0.5.12-3

This test release has been rebuilt re-enabling libc fnmatch and glob as
Cygwin/winsup/newlib now supports locale dependent named character and
equivalence class patterns like glibc in Cygwin versions > 3.4.6-1.
Install this test package only of you are running Cygwin snapshots or
test packages newer than 3.4.6-1 as is an install condition, so *should*
not be installable with current stable or older.
If no issues are reported the package will be upgraded to current when
the Cygwin current stable release is updated to > 3.4.6-1.

Thanks to Andrey Repin for testing and bringing this to our attention,
Harald van Dijk on the dash list for pointing out the commit
responsible, and Corinna Vinschen for adding support for the class
patterns to the Cygwin libc functions.

Please test this Base category shell as extensively as possible
(especially if you are a Cygwin package maintainer) as this
package is used in all installations.
I have it locally installed as my /bin/sh so it is used by most scripts,
cron jobs, and cygport builds, so it has and is getting frequent
exercise with no apparent issues so far.

DASH is a POSIX-compliant implementation of /bin/sh that aims to be
as small as possible. It does this without sacrificing speed where
possible. In fact, it is significantly faster than bash (the GNU
Bourne-Again SHell) for most tasks.

For more information see the project home page:

	http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/dash/

For changes since the previous release, see below;
for complete details see:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dash/dash.git/log/?h=v0.5.12&showmsg=1


2022-12-11	0.5.12

error:
	Remove USE_NORETURN ifdef

eval:
	Always set exitstatus in evaltree
	Check eflag after redirection error
	Check nflag in evaltree instead of cmdloop
	Do not cache value of eflag in evaltree
	Prevent recursive PS4 expansion
	Test evalskip before flipping status for NNOT

expand:
	Add ifsfree to expand to fix a logic error that causes a buffer over-read
	Always quote caret when using fnmatch
	Make glob(3) interruptible by SIGINT

input:
	Clear unget on RESET
	Remove special case for unget EOF

jobs:
	Always reset SIGINT/SIGQUIT handlers
	Block signals during tcsetpgrp
	Fix waitcmd busy loop
	Only block in waitcmd on first run

man:
	fix formatting

parser:
	Add VSBIT to ensure subtype is never zero
	Fix VSLENGTH parsing with trailing garbage
	Get rid of PEOA
	
redir:
	Retry open64 on EINTR
	
shell:
	Call CHECK_DECL on stat64
        Disable glob again as it strips trailing slashes
        Enable fnmatch/glob by default
        Fail if building --with-libedit and can't find libedit
        Group readdir64/dirent64 with open64

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Test: dash 0.5.12-3 (TEST)

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mar  1 16:37, Cygwin dash Co-Maintainer via Cygwin-announce via Cygwin wrote:
> The following test packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:
> 
> * dash	0.5.12-3
> 
> This test release has been rebuilt re-enabling libc fnmatch and glob as
> Cygwin/winsup/newlib now supports locale dependent named character and
> equivalence class patterns like glibc in Cygwin versions > 3.4.6-1.

I have to clarify this.

The new features of fnmatch and glob will only be available starting
with Cygwin 3.5.0, slated for end of 2023.

Any further 3.4.x versions will only contain bugfixes, not functional
enhancements.  So please don't expect this to work in 3.4.7.

So this dash version only makes sense if you install Cygwin-3.5.0
test releases on a regular basis.


Corinna

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Test: dash 0.5.12-3 (TEST)

[Brian Inglis]

[Saw post on public-inbox, did not receive!]
> On Mar  1 16:37, Cygwin dash Co-Maintainer wrote:
>> The following test packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:
>> * dash	0.5.12-3
>> This test release has been rebuilt re-enabling libc fnmatch and glob as
>> Cygwin/winsup/newlib now supports locale dependent named character and
>> equivalence class patterns like glibc in Cygwin versions > 3.4.6-1.

> I have to clarify this.
> The new features of fnmatch and glob will only be available starting
> with Cygwin 3.5.0, slated for end of 2023.
> Any further 3.4.x versions will only contain bugfixes, not functional
> enhancements. So please don't expect this to work in 3.4.7.
> So this dash version only makes sense if you install Cygwin-3.5.0
> test releases on a regular basis.

I'll create another test release 5 with cygwin >= 3.5.0-0 and updated comments.

Original announcement of release 4 never appeared - resent *before* I saw post.

[Uploaded test release 4 to add dash-VER-R link, to make release tracking 
easier, as dash has no version info or query support, and checking dates vs tars 
is painful.]

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

La perfection est atteinte                   Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter  not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer     but when there is no more to cut
                                 -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry