Re: cygutils: replace ascii with ESR's?
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: ESR maintains a standalone ascii(1) which appears to have more features than cygutils': http://catb.org/~esr/ascii/ I have a package already in Ports: ftp://ftp.cygwinports.org/pub/cygwinports/release-2/ascii (The latest 3.11 release is already in my upload queue.) Should we replace this? Patch attached if so. +1 Christian
Re: cygutils: replace ascii with ESR's?
On 10/30/2011 8:26 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: ESR maintains a standalone ascii(1) which appears to have more features than cygutils': http://catb.org/~esr/ascii/ Should we replace this? Patch attached if so. Well, I have mixed feelings. On the PRO side: 1) smaller cygutils == fewer headaches for me. Also, since cygutils is now pulled in by several Base packages, the smaller it becomes, the better. 2) Following the same thought, if something is available (and maintained) elsewhere then cygutils shouldn't duplicate effort, unless its version really adds value -- or is unique to the cygwin platform (e.g. cygdrop). [Hmm...dump.exe = 'od -Ax -tx2z'?] 3) show all names for a single character feature is...interesting. I like the aliases listed for '' (includes gozinta -- and I haven't seen 'bra' and 'ket' used for '' and '' since Statistical Mechanics and Quantum Dynamics...tho technically it is '|' and '|') However, on the CON side: 1) I really find the default table output of ESR's version rather ugly (and the hex only -x, decimal only -d, and octal only -o tables are downright hideous). 2) No long options (so -h/-? work, but --help doesn't. Ditto -v vs. --version). And no --license. 3) Not sure if this matters, but ESR's version has no option to display the high-bit-set character codes (128..255). I find this feature of cygutils-ascii much less useful these days, now that charset:oem (and rxvt) are as-good-as-dead, and other terminals with *real* charset support -- like mintty, xterm, or rxvt-unicode -- are gaining almost complete prevalence on cygwin. I'll wait and see what other folks think before making a decision. Comments, anyone? -- Chuck
cygutils: replace ascii with ESR's?
ESR maintains a standalone ascii(1) which appears to have more features than cygutils': http://catb.org/~esr/ascii/ I have a package already in Ports: ftp://ftp.cygwinports.org/pub/cygwinports/release-2/ascii (The latest 3.11 release is already in my upload queue.) Should we replace this? Patch attached if so. Yaakov 2011-10-30 Yaakov Selkowitz yselkowitz@... * Makefile.am: Remove mentions of ascii. * PROGLIST: Ditto. * README: Ditto. * src/ascii: Remove. Index: Makefile.am === RCS file: /cvs/cygwin-apps/cygutils/Makefile.am,v retrieving revision 1.37 diff -u -p -r1.37 Makefile.am --- Makefile.am 28 Oct 2011 04:02:57 - 1.37 +++ Makefile.am 28 Oct 2011 06:00:53 - @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ if WITH_CYGWIN_SPECIFIC_PROGRAMS cygwin_specific_progs = src/cygdrop/cygdrop endif -bin_PROGRAMS = src/ascii/ascii $(windows_progs) src/conv/conv \ +bin_PROGRAMS = $(windows_progs) src/conv/conv \ src/dump/dump $(ipc_progs) \ src/realpath/realpath $(cygwin_specific_progs) @@ -112,7 +112,6 @@ DISTCLEANFILES = \ po/remove-potcdate.sed \ src/cygicons/cygicons.rc -src_ascii_ascii_LDADD = -lpopt src_banner_banner_LDADD = -lpopt -lkernel32 -lgdi32 src_clip_getclip_LDADD = -lpopt src_clip_putclip_LDADD = -lpopt Index: PROGLIST === RCS file: /cvs/cygwin-apps/cygutils/PROGLIST,v retrieving revision 1.36 diff -u -p -r1.36 PROGLIST --- PROGLIST 28 Apr 2011 17:41:03 - 1.36 +++ PROGLIST 28 Oct 2011 06:00:53 - @@ -1,7 +1,3 @@ -ascii.exe - dumps the 256 ascii characters to stdout - using a nice format (GPLv3+) - dump.exe [file] hex dump of file to stdout, using a nice format (GPLv3+) Index: README === RCS file: /cvs/cygwin-apps/cygutils/README,v retrieving revision 1.33 diff -u -p -r1.33 README --- README 28 Apr 2011 17:41:03 - 1.33 +++ README 28 Oct 2011 06:00:53 - @@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ files included in this package that fall What's in this package: --- GPLv3+: - ascii banner cygdrop cygicons.dll cygstart - dump lprmkshortcutreadshortcut realpath + banner cygdrop cygicons.dll cygstartdump + lprmkshortcutreadshortcut realpath Clipboard: putclip getclip
