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Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:07:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: Keith Christian <keithchristian AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Anyone want to be the "expect" package maintainer?
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I've used Cygwin's expect for a couple of years in sporadic automation and it works well.

One thing that is useful and which is missing from the Cygwin package is the "autoexpect" program, which I copied from the source tarball.

There is nothing that appears massively broken, so it should be easy for whomever becomes the next maintainer.

========Keith


--- On Sat, 8/16/08, Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net> wrote:

> From: Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net>
> Subject: Re: Anyone want to be the "expect" package maintainer?
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Date: Saturday, August 16, 2008, 1:46 PM
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> According to Christopher Faylor on 8/15/2008 11:11 AM:
> > I haven't updated the expect package in many
> years.  It used to be based
> > on a hacked version of expect from the sourceware.org
> src repository but
> > that version has disappeared.  I asked the person
> responsible for the
> > disappearance if they would like to become the new
> package maintainer
> > for Cygwin and they said yes but that never
> materialized.
> > 
> > The definitive sources for expect are here:
> http://expect.nist.gov/ .
> 
> I can at least give it a shot, since the findutils
> testsuite uses expect.
>  I'll see what I can do with it this coming week,
> although I'm not very
> fluent in tcl.
> 
> - --
> Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
> 
> Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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