On 20/07/2019 04:25, Brian Inglis wrote:
I would like to offer to package vttest:test VT-type and X terminals and emulators Tests the functionality of a VT100 terminal (or emulator thereof). It tests both display (escape sequence handling) and keyboard. The program is menu-driven and contains full operating instructions. To run a given menu-item, you enter its number. You can run all menu-items (for a given level) by entering an asterisk, i.e, '*'. It has been enhanced to support and test many xterm control and status escape sequences, and it is mainly used nowadays for testing emulator compatibility: see mintty announcements and GitHub issues. I thought it may have previously been available under Cygwin, as it has Cygwin patches available for a previous version, but Cygwin searches only bring up recent hits for mintty. It is available under all RedHat, Debian, BSD, and Slack Linux flavours: https://pkgs.org/download/vttest Control files, sources, and binaries are available under the vttest folder at: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1S9GoI3DX0u2fO39C86bu1u4VCzD7jXxW The version has been stuck at 2.7 for years since the release date was adopted instead; cygport does not seem to like a long version string with a trailing date prefixed by either - dash or . dot; so using only the release date as
That should work, so I'm not sure what the problem could be. But I agree that using the date alone is probably the best idea.
Cygwin version.
Looks good. Thanks for taking on these packages. I added this and mtr to your permitted uploads.
