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Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:19:17 -0400
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: version 5.45 of expect/tcl
From: Craig Miller <cvmiller AT gmail DOT com>
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Thanks Larry,

Once I get the updated version of expect in the distro, I think I
would like to create an expect-lite package for cygwin. It doesn't
appear all that hard, and I am already creating deb and rpm packages.

Thanks,

Craig...

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Larry W. Virden <lvirden AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> Craig - it is good to see some work going on in cygwin relating to
> tcl. I hope that expect-lite is incorporated; it would be nice to have
> a version of tcl closer to the latest version released.
>
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Craig Miller <cvmiller AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I am the author of expect-lite <expect-lite.sf.net> which relies heavily on
>> expect. The version in the cygwin repository is quite old (from 2003). I
>> have compiled a modern version of expect (v 5.45) based on TCL 8.5.
>
> You may want to contact the cygwinports <
> http://sourceware.org/cygwinports > to see if active support for a
> current release should go there first.
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