X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <4EA86D31.5040206@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:43:19 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Request update of TCL and expect packages From: Craig Miller To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id p9RIhgTp016095 Dave, This sounds like a not unreasonable solution (having 2 sets of tcl/expect packages). I can see that there might be a confusion factor for newbies, so it would be good to get a few more opinions. If it is acceptable, I would happily contribute/maintain the TCL 8.5, expect 5.45 packages. regards, Craig... On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Dave wrote: > On 10/26/2011 3:27 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote: >> >> After chatting with Craig I dug the archives and >> I presume the main issue is how to upgrade tcl/tk >> and all the packages that depend froms it >> assuming that everything works and nothing is broken. >> The problem was already mentioned long time ago >> > I hope this isn't a dumb question... > > Since TCL is designed to support multiple versions installed simultaneously, > and there are already quite a few Cygwin packages that have dependencies on > various versions of libraries, why not have a new TCL85 and EXPECT545 > packages? Just leave all the other packages that depend on TCL8.4 alone? > Perhaps Mr. Miller would volunteer to be the Cygwin package owner for these > two new packages. Even if he were to abandon support, the situation would be > better since we'd have >much< more modern versions of TCL/EXPECT for Cygwin. > > > > > -- > 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 > > -- 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