Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 15:28:59 -0500 From: "Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: ORBit-0.5.17-2, ORBit-devel-0.5.17-2, libIDL-0.6.8-2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The following packages have been added in the Cygwin distribution: *** ORBit-0.5.17-2 *** ORBit-devel-0.5.17-2 *** libIDL-0.6.8-2 ORBit is a high-performance CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) ORB (object request broker). It allows programs to send requests and receive replies from other programs, regardless of the locations of the two programs. CORBA is an architecture that enables communication between program objects, regardless of the programming language they are written in or the operating system they run on. libIDL is a library licensed under the GNU LGPL for creating trees of CORBA Interface Definition Language (IDL) files, which is a specification for defining portable interfaces. libIDL was initially written for ORBit (the ORB from the GNOME project, and the primary means of libIDL distribution). However, the functionality was designed to be as reusable and portable as possible. These packages are prerequisites for the GNOME 1.4 libraries. *** IMPORTANT for those using GNOME 2, especially ORBit2-devel: The package previously named libIDL (0.8.x) has been renamed libIDL2, in order to make space for this branch of libIDL 0.6. Both versions can be installed in parallel, but because of the rename, the following is required: 1) If you first update after reading this, then libIDL2 will be pulled in automatically as a ORBit2 dependency, and libIDL will be "downgraded" to 0.6.8-2. THIS IS THE CORRECT BEHAVIOR. If you don't want anything from GNOME 1.4, you may choose to uninstall libIDL (and skip glib, which is a dependency). 2) If you have already updated and allowed setup.exe to "downgrade" libIDL, but you don't want GNOME 1.4, then run setup.exe again and uninstall libIDL and glib. 3) If you have already updated, but did NOT allow setup.exe to "downgrade" libIDL, then you have a libIDL-0.8.x and libIDL2-0.8.6. THIS IS A PROBLEM! To fix this, run setup.exe again, and either allow libIDL to be "downgraded" -- or you can uninstall if you don't want GNOME 1.4, together with glib -- *and* reinstall libIDL2. Yaakov - -- *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain DOT com AT cygwin DOT com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDNGWLpiWmPGlmQSMRAkjGAJ95oP5apwdDpBbNZ1vB1Loy0kglOQCgiEP5 muB6nKbqwkWOAi0mBY+LXsk= =7NPe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/