X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Original-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org EE1BD3858004 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=tlinx.org Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=cygwin AT tlinx DOT org Message-ID: <603C839E.2080509@tlinx.org> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2021 22:03:10 -0800 From: L A Walsh User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Would it be possible to update the bash package? References: In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Matt Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: "Cygwin" On 2021/02/27 18:06, Matt via Cygwin wrote: > Hi maintainers, > > Would it be possible to get an updated version of the bash package? The > latest version available for cygwin is 4.4.12-3 which was released in 2017. > There's been at least one major version of bash (5.0) released since then > in January 2019 and 5.1 just came out in December 2020. > ---- Is there something you are missing in 5.0? I'm still at 4.3 and it seems to be working fine. What features are you looking for in 5.0 that you need it? you could just build + install it yourself too. It's not that hard of a package to build. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple