X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:47:36 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Anyone want to be the "expect" package maintainer? Message-ID: <20080817014736.GA31719@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20080815171138 DOT GA30106 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <48A72E8B DOT 5070005 AT byu DOT net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48A72E8B.5070005@byu.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 01:46:19PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >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. FWIW, I'm in the process of trying to get the latest version of tcl building for Cygwin. It occurred to me that this might make it easier to support expect. So maybe you might want to hold off until I either release that or admit defeat and look for a new tcl maintainer. :-) cgf -- 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/