Hi Marco, I am sure someone else could update the expect package, but I have been following cygwin for a year now (support expect-lite on cygwin) and saw no updates. There is functionality in the newer expect that expect-lite takes advantage of, and it would be nice to have a newer version in the distro.
I have included in the package the tcl lib for 8.5. It will get installed when this package is installed. I hope that helps, Craig... On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Craig Miller <cvmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Marco, > I am sure someone else could update the expect package, but I have been > following cygwin for a year now (support expect-lite on cygwin) and saw no > updates. There is functionality in the newer expect that expect-lite takes > advantage of, and it would be nice to have a newer version in the distro. > I have included in the package the tcl lib for 8.5. It will get installed > when this package is installed. > I hope that helps, > Craig... > > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:48 AM, Marco Atzeri <marco.atz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 10/25/2011 3:31 AM, Craig Miller wrote: >>> >>> Hello All, >>> >>> I am the author of expect-lite <expect-lite.sf.net> which relies heavily >>> on expect. The version in the cygwin repository is quite old (from >>> 2003). I have compiled a modern version of expect (v 5.45) based on TCL >>> 8.5. >>> >>> Expect, originally written by Don Libes, is a program that "talks" to >>> other interactive programs according to a script. Following the script, >>> Expect knows what can be expected from a program and what the correct >>> response should be. An interpreted language provides branching and >>> high-level control structures to direct the dialogue. In addition, the >>> user can take control and interact directly when desired, afterward >>> returning control to the script. >>> >>> This is a direct replacement for the 2003 version, and can be found at: >>> http://www.makikiweb.com/cygwin/expect/ >>> >>> Please accept this into the cygwin repository. >>> >>> thanks, >>> >>> Craig... >>> >> >> I suspect our expect package maintainer (aka cgf) is capable to >> update the package by himself. >> Moreover the tcltk package in cygwin is based around 8.4 not 8.5. >> >> Regards >> Marco >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html >> FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ >> Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >> Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >> > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
