X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Subject: Re: Tcl file separator From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" To: cygwin In-Reply-To: <20110126053350.GA31872@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> References: <2BF01EB27B56CC478AD6E5A0A28931F201DD85B4@A1DAL1SWPES19MB.ams.acs-inc.net> <2BF01EB27B56CC478AD6E5A0A28931F201DD8DE9@A1DAL1SWPES19MB.ams.acs-inc.net> <20110126053350.GA31872@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:18:02 -0600 Message-ID: <1296148682.2552.11.camel@YAAKOV04> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 00:33 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > Tcl is currently one part of the Cygwin installation that is pretty much > pure windows. It is that way for the sole purpose of working with the > insight debugger. So it takes windows paths and is not a real Cygwin > application. > > I'm working on this very very slowly but I don't have an ETA for when this will > be fixed. What exactly are you trying to "fix"? I thought we agreed that the solution was to move to a *NIX/X11 Tcl/Tk as already exists in Ports, and rebuild the handful of programs which actually link against them (namely: expect, insight, python, ruby, tcl3270, tcl-brlapi, tcl-db*, tcl-ming, and WordNet.). I've already done much of the work, so why must this take so long? http://cygwin-ports.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb-index.cgi Yaakov -- 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