Thank you for the additional information, Marco. If it is of any assistance to Christopher Faylor, I believe the tcl/expect and dependent packages have been upgraded on sourceware <ftp://sourceware.org/pub/cygwinports/portslist.txt>, perhaps the upgrade will not be that time consuming.
regards, Craig... On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Marco Atzeri <marco.atz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 10/26/2011 6:50 PM, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: >> >> On 25 October 2011 13:37, Craig Miller wrote: >>> >>> Hello Chris Sutcliffe& Christopher Faylor, >> >> Not sure how I can help with this, TCL and expect are cgf's domain. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Chris >> > > After chatting with Craig I dug the archives and > I presume the main issue is how to upgrade tcl/tk > and all the packages that depend froms it > assuming that everything works and nothing is broken. > The problem was already mentioned long time ago > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-09/msg00311.html > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-09/msg00389.html > > and it is one of the most recorrent ones. > > There are currently 19 packages depending from tcltk, > "brltty" is probably the most sensitive from this point of view. > > The separation of insight from gdb seems one of the key step > that cgf is taking to solve this long time problem > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-08/msg00413.html > > but I have no idea wich are the other blocking points. > > About expect Cgf was looking long time ago a volunteer > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-08/msg00458.html > so this package will likely wait the tcltk upgrade > > 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
