X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-Id: Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 06:31:58 -0600 From: Eric Blake Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Thunderbird/1.5.0.7 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: readline-5.2-2, libreadline6-5.2-2 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------070600050800030504010006" Reply-To: The Cygwin Mailing List X-Mailer: Perl5 Mail::Internet v1.74 X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 --------------070600050800030504010006 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A new release of readline and libreadline6, 5.2-2, is available for experimental use, replacing 5.2-1. 5.1-5 remains the current version. NEWS: ===== This is a new stable upstream release. However, a bug has reported against single-line prompts that use invisible characters, which I still have not found a root cause for. This release adds the same workaround hack that 5.1-5 was using, but it is possible that I might yet be able to fix the bug for good. It is also possible that there might be upstream bug fixes in the near future, if previous bash release patterns remain true. Additionally, this version is not strictly binary compatible with readline 5.1; it removes a cygwin-specific entry point that bash 3.0 (but not bash 3.1) depended on. Now that bash 3.0 is no longer available from the cygwin mirrors, I felt it safe to drop that cygwin-specific patch. Although it is unlikely that any other package depended on this entry point, I need to know now if this decision was not wise, in which case I will create libreadline7 when promoting readline 5.2 to current, leaving libreadline6 to preserve the entry point; but I will only do this if someone can demonstrate why it is needed (hint, you would have to mention the entry point by name to show you know what you are talking about; and nobody did so with the 5.2-1 release). A short list of upstream changes since 5.1 is attached. See also /usr/share/doc/readline-5.2/. DESCRIPTION: ============ The readline library will read a line from the terminal and return it, allowing the user to edit the line with emacs or vi editing keys. It also allows a history feature, for editing previous entries, making command line interfaces easier-to-use and more intuitive. libreadline6 provides the .dlls needed for readline and history expansion for dynamic linking in other programs, including bash and gdb; it is required for a minimal cygwin installation. The 6 in libreadline6 distinguishes incompatible API changes made to the prior libreadline4 and libreadline5 libraries still available on the mirrors. readline provides the documentation and the static libraries required for static linking; you should only need it if you plan on compiling an application that links with -lreadline or -lhistory. UPDATE: ======= To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions and pick up 'libreadline6' from the 'Base' category (it should already be selected), or 'readline' in the 'Devel' category. Be sure that you do not have any cygwin programs running during the upgrade. You will need to use the 'Exp' radio button since this release is experimental. DOWNLOAD: ========= Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't allowed due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: ========== If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. - -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin readline maintainer CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: ================================= To unsubscribe to 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. 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Calling applications can now set the keyboard timeout to 0, allowing poll-like behavior. b. The value of SYS_INPUTRC (configurable at compilation time) is now used as the default last-ditch startup file. c. The history file reading functions now allow windows-like \r\n line terminators. --------------070600050800030504010006 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- 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/ --------------070600050800030504010006--