Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <3A2FB306.8CDAF299@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 10:55:50 -0500 From: "Charles S. Wilson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Grep References: <3A2F334A.219F7ADB@mbo-verlag.de> <20001207020716.D13259@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 07:50:50AM +0100, Simon Westhues wrote: > >Hi, > > > >why in there an old version 2.2 of grep included in cygwin? > > > >The latest GNU grep 2.4.2 compiled without problems in my cygwin. > > We like to annoy people by including older versions of tools. It causes > the core developers no end of hilarity watching the poor hapless end > users scratching their heads and wondering where the beloved features > that they have come to rely on under linux have gone. Perhaps some explanation is in order: the 'core' team is focused on cygwin. cygwin, cygwin, cygwin. 'Core' issues. However, when cygwin-1.1 was first released, they helpfully provided some basic tools as well -- most of the stuff in /latest/. But they do not really have time to maintain and update those tools. If you see a need for a newer version of some tool in the /latest/ directory (like grep), then please -- provide it. We *need* package maintainers. There was a discussion recently on the cygwin-apps list, where Carlos Puig was beginning to port/update Texinfo-4.0, and wanted advice. Read this whole thread: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2000-11/msg00042.html --Chuck -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com