From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17742 invoked by alias); 9 Nov 2011 00:17:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 17688 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Nov 2011 00:17:05 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nm16.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com (HELO nm16.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com) (66.94.237.217) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with SMTP; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:16:52 +0000 Received: from [66.94.237.197] by nm16.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 09 Nov 2011 00:16:51 -0000 Received: from [66.94.237.115] by tm8.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 09 Nov 2011 00:16:51 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1020.access.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 09 Nov 2011 00:16:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 8335 invoked from network); 9 Nov 2011 00:16:51 -0000 X-Yahoo-SMTP: jenXL62swBAWhMTL3wnej93oaS0ClBQOAKs8jbEbx_o- Received: from cgf.cx (cgf@98.110.183.46 with login) by smtp104.vzn.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 08 Nov 2011 16:16:51 -0800 PST Received: from localhost (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F20013C0D3 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 19:16:50 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:17:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: insight@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Next Release Status Message-ID: <20111109001650.GA778@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Mail-Followup-To: insight@sourceware.org References: <4EB96BEE.8080505@redhat.com> <4EB9A9CE.3030902@gmx.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4EB9A9CE.3030902@gmx.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact insight-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: insight-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-q4/txt/msg00010.txt.bz2 On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 11:14:38PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: >Am 08.11.2011 18:50, schrieb Keith Seitz: >> Hi, >> >> Given some demand, I am planning on doing an official release of Insight >> sometime just after the GDB 7.4 release (process starting soon). >> >> My primary goals for this release (largely just an update/bugfixes) are >> that it build/work on Linux (my platform), MinGW, and Cygwin. >> >> I spent some time this weekend rummaging around the sources attempting >> to get this stuff working. Here's a little status report on my progress. >> >> Linux: builds and runs okay. Found a memory corruption bug in the >> register window (affects all hosts). Needs to be fixed before release. >> >> MinGW: Had patches lying around to get build working, but I forgot. So I >> re-invented the wheel. No big deal. I will check these in. There is, >> however, a startup problem with libgui on this platform. It complains >> about being unable to find pkgIndex.tcl. Hopefully, not too painful to fix. >> >> Cygwin: This is the nightmare. Tcl et al are completely broken. Instead >> of using my ancient Windows 2000 box, I have installed a VM on my linux >> box and put a modern Windows installation in there. Now I see all the >> problems that people have reported throughout the years that I could >> never reproduce! Example: conflicts with winsock & Cygwin's posix layer. >> Ouch. Currently, this is the only platform for which I do not have a >> working build. > >That's been the status quo ever since Cygwin 1.7.0 got released. Actually, I've been able to build this without much effort. I just don't like the current state of affairs wrt cygwin tcl/tk and insight so I haven't been motivated to make a release. >> I hope over the next few weeks, leading up to the GDB 7.4 release, to >> get these problems resolved. If you'd like to help (especially with >> Cygwin!), please let me know. >> >> If anyone has any other peeves or important bugs, please also let me >> know, and I will try to address them before this next release. > >My idea is to contact the Cygwin mailing list (which is read by the >maintainers). Tell them your plans and ask for help with Tcl/Tk. I >suppose you'll hear "sorry, no maintainer" though. And tell them that >you need Tcl/Tk with POSIX-style networking. There's no need to do this. The maintainer reads this list. cgf