Re: ATTENTION: Tcl/Tk transition

2011-10-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 06:26:34PM -0700, Cary R. wrote: >FYI expect is what drew me to Tcl/Tk a very long time ago. > >Trust that I understand the need to be using a more modern version of >Tcl/Tk. I'm just whining that we're going to loose the GDI support. >Since I'm not going to do anything to

Re: ATTENTION: Tcl/Tk transition

2011-10-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 02:31:28AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >On 26/10/2011 22:02, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >> cgf has asked me to take over tcl/tk/expect maintainership and >> transition the distro from our Win32/GDI hybrid 8.4 to the *NIX/X11 8.5 >> currently in Ports. > > To anyone feeling appreh

Re: ATTENTION: Tcl/Tk transition

2011-10-26 Thread Dave Korn
On 26/10/2011 22:02, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > cgf has asked me to take over tcl/tk/expect maintainership and > transition the distro from our Win32/GDI hybrid 8.4 to the *NIX/X11 8.5 > currently in Ports. To anyone feeling apprehensive, I've been using the 'ports versions of tcl and expect for

Re: ATTENTION: Tcl/Tk transition

2011-10-26 Thread Cary R.
And I've been using Cygwin for over a decade. While I'm at it thanks to all for making life bearable on a windows machine! FYI expect is what drew me to Tcl/Tk a very long time ago. Trust that I understand the need to be using a more modern version of Tcl/Tk. I'm just whining that we're going to

Re: ATTENTION: Tcl/Tk transition

2011-10-26 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 16:02 -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > * ruby (Corinna Vinschen) > new requires: tcl tcl-tk > notes: I suggest making a make separate ruby-tcltk package due to the > additional deps. Patches for 1.8.7-p352 attached. Yaakov libuuid from util-linux hides the w32api libuuid.

Re: ATTENTION: Tcl/Tk transition

2011-10-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 03:59:18PM -0700, Cary R. wrote: >I already spend most of my free time working on an open source Verilog >simulator, so unfortunately, no, I'm not going to volunteer. I >understand the reason for switching, but be prepared for some serious >user complaints once this is impl

Re: ATTENTION: Tcl/Tk transition

2011-10-26 Thread Cary R.
I already spend most of my free time working on an open source Verilog simulator, so unfortunately, no, I'm not goingto volunteer. I understand the reason for switching,but be prepared for some serious user complaintsonce this is implemented. I don't normally have time to read the general cygwin

Re: ATTENTION: Tcl/Tk transition

2011-10-26 Thread Charles Wilson
On 10/26/2011 5:53 PM, Cary R. wrote: > If I'm understanding this correctly once this change has been > pushed we will be required to start an X server beforerunning > gitk. Yes. > As someone who uses git and gitk all the time having to > start the X server to run gitk is a pain. I haven't checke

Re: ATTENTION: Tcl/Tk transition

2011-10-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 02:53:48PM -0700, Cary R. wrote: >Yaakov, > > > >If I'm understanding this correctly once this change has been >pushed we will be required to start an X server beforerunning >gitk. As someone who uses git and gitk all the time having to >start the X server to run gitk is a p

Re: ATTENTION: Tcl/Tk transition

2011-10-26 Thread Cary R.
Yaakov, If I'm understanding this correctly once this change has been pushed we will be required to start an X server beforerunning gitk. As someone who uses git and gitk all the time having to start the X server to run gitk is a pain. I haven't checked this recently, but in the past the X serve

Re: ATTENTION: Tcl/Tk transition

2011-10-26 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 10/26/2011 11:24 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote: stupid question: should not be easier for testing the new packages and upgrading the other ones that you put them in the distro as experimental ? I know that the maintainers you mentioned have no problems but eventually there are other people that nee

Re: ATTENTION: Tcl/Tk transition

2011-10-26 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 10/26/2011 11:06 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 16:02 -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: The following packages will need an IMMEDIATE rebuild: Oops, I missed one: * brltty [tcl-brlapi] (Samuel Thibault) new requires: tcl Yaakov stupid question: should not be easier

Re: ATTENTION: Tcl/Tk transition

2011-10-26 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 16:02 -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > The following packages will need an IMMEDIATE rebuild: Oops, I missed one: * brltty [tcl-brlapi] (Samuel Thibault) new requires: tcl Yaakov

ATTENTION: Tcl/Tk transition

2011-10-26 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
cgf has asked me to take over tcl/tk/expect maintainership and transition the distro from our Win32/GDI hybrid 8.4 to the *NIX/X11 8.5 currently in Ports. ITA: expect tcltk (to be obsoleted) ITP (in place of tcltk): tcl tcl-itcl tcl-itk tcl-iwidgets tcl-tix tcl-tk (I have more extensions in Port

Re: upset errors: package gcc4-java requires non-existent package java-ecj

2011-10-26 Thread Dave Korn
On 26/10/2011 09:12, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 09:37 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> Hi Dave, >> >> something's not quite correct: >> >>> upset: *** setup.ini: warning - package gcc4-java requires non-existent >>> package java-ecj >> For now I just removed the dependency t

Re: lost announcements

2011-10-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 09:24:22AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >I'm wondering if the raw mail address filter isn't a bit overagressive. >Am I mistaken or has the traffic on the cygwin ML gone down a lot >lately? I thought it was obvious that I spend some time every day dealing with spam, bounce

Re: upset errors: package gcc4-java requires non-existent package java-ecj

2011-10-26 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 09:37 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Hi Dave, > > something's not quite correct: > > > upset: *** setup.ini: warning - package gcc4-java requires non-existent > > package java-ecj > > For now I just removed the dependency to java-ecj since there's no such > package on so

upset errors: package gcc4-java requires non-existent package java-ecj

2011-10-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Dave, something's not quite correct: > upset: *** setup.ini: warning - package gcc4-java requires non-existent > package java-ecj For now I just removed the dependency to java-ecj since there's no such package on sourceware. What's missing here? Corinna

Re: lost announcements

2011-10-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 26 02:27, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 09:17:40AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > >> >Hm, you're right. But the odd thing is that they weren't posted to the > > >> >cygwin > > >> >list, which is where I read them: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-10/. > > >> > > >