Mail Archives: cygwin/2009/06/15/02:11:42
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).
[[ compiled using gcc-3.4.4-999 ]]
This release supports both cygwin-1.5 and cygwin-1.7. In the
future, support for long filenames, wide chars/unicode filenames
and xml configfile contents may be added, but only to a
cygwin-1.7-specific version (PTC!)
CHANGES since (checkx) 0.2.0
============================
o Renamed package to reflect new focus and utility
o Added new run2 utility
o Almost complete rewrite
Known Limitations
============================
o Doesn't properly use the new (really) long-filename APIs
of cygwin-1.7
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.
Known "Regressions" (or, stuff
that the old run.exe could do,
but that run2.exe can't)
============================
o Old run.exe could be renamed to, e.g., 'runemacs.exe' and
would automatically launch 'emacs.exe' without requiring
emacs.exe to appear in the argument list. run2.exe can't
do that, and probably never will.
o Old run.exe could be compiled with mingw or gcc -mno-cygwin
At present, run2 is cygwin-only. Enough major surgery would
be required to enable run2 to compile on mingw that I suspect
it would be cleaner to create a mingw-run2 branch separate
from the main run2 development, rather than clutter the code
and build machinery with a bunch of #ifdefs and AM_CONDITIONALS.
See the README file for more information.
--
Charles Wilson
volunteer checkx^H^H^H run2 maintainer for cygwin
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