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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Anyone want to be the "expect" package maintainer? > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Date: Saturday, August 16, 2008, 1:46 PM > -----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. > > - -- > Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! > > Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) > Comment: Public key at > home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - > http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkinLosACgkQ84KuGfSFAYA9aQCeJBeKA0tn3s6tuwEBTZZSNcxk > D2kAn1grDmq0TVCG97ru37e3GEpT97DU > =bogp > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > 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/ -- 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/