Re: Windows XP Support

2016-01-11 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Warren Young! > On Jan 10, 2016, at 4:52 PM, Juan Miguel Navarro Martínez wrote: >> >> No software version can live forever > Indeed, not even Linux. > There’s a thread over on the CentOS mailing list right now started by > someone who’s trying to get something working on CentOS 3, w

Re: Problems with lxml package

2016-01-11 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On 2016-01-11 16:58, Christian-Manuel Röderer wrote: is anyone else experiencing problems with the current versions of the lxml package for python 3 (python-lxml-3.2.3-1 and python-lxml-3.4.4-1, 64 bit)? Those are for Python 2.7. For Python 3.4 you need python3-lxml. -- Yaakov -- Problem rep

Problems with lxml package

2016-01-11 Thread Christian-Manuel Röderer
Dear list, is anyone else experiencing problems with the current versions of the lxml package for python 3 (python-lxml-3.2.3-1 and python-lxml-3.4.4-1, 64 bit)? It seems to install correctly (and so do the dependencies) but then it seems to be incomplete: $ python3.4 Python 3.4.3 (default, May

Re: Windows XP Support

2016-01-11 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Mon, 11 Jan 2016, Erik Soderquist wrote: Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 15:26:39 -0500 From: Erik Soderquist Subject: Re: Windows XP Support Greetings, Erik, On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 2:59 PM, cyg Simple wrote: Arguments like this is the reason I had to spend years searching through COBOL code for

cygmagic-1.dll - access violation by accessing the lib via python

2016-01-11 Thread Holger Bast
Hi there, I'm using a python wrapper (python-magic, https://github.com/ahupp/python-magic) checking some filetypes in a small script. The wrapper works fine under Unix-like system, but I got an access violation error under cygwin. I already tried an older version of file including libmagic from

Re: Windows XP Support

2016-01-11 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 2:59 PM, cyg Simple wrote: > Arguments like this is the reason I had to spend years searching through > COBOL code for 2 digit years. Old habits seem hard to die. Either > upgrade or forever pay the penalty yourself to keep the old code running. Actually I agree wholehear

Re: Windows XP Support

2016-01-11 Thread cyg Simple
On 1/11/2016 12:05 PM, Erik Soderquist wrote: > On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 6:52 PM, Juan Miguel Navarro Martínez wrote: >> No software version can live forever, ... > > Personally, I have to disagree with this statement, or at least offer > an amendment... > > I have some things still running in DO

[ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.4.0-0.18

2016-01-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Cygwin friends and users, I released TEST version 2.4.0-0.18 of Cygwin. This is the last test release if nothing unexpected happens. I plan to release officially on Friday. What's new: --- - New, unified implementation of POSIX permission and ACL handling. The new ACLs now stor

Re: Windows XP Support

2016-01-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 11 09:25, Warren Young wrote: > On Jan 11, 2016, at 4:52 AM, Corinna Vinschen > wrote: > > > > Continuing support for XP and Server 2003 is really becoming a > > burden. It requires to code and maintain workarounds which are not > > required anymore in newer OSes, so I really would like

Re: Pipes Again -- a simple test case

2016-01-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 11 16:13, Henri wrote: > Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > Can you please provide the socket testcase? > > Trying to send you what you ask for (using gmane.org, I have to copy/paste) Thanks! I applied a patch and created a new developer snapshot. I'll also upload a new cygwin tes

Re: Windows XP Support

2016-01-11 Thread Warren Young
On Jan 10, 2016, at 4:52 PM, Juan Miguel Navarro Martínez wrote: > > No software version can live forever Indeed, not even Linux. There’s a thread over on the CentOS mailing list right now started by someone who’s trying to get something working on CentOS 3, which is about three years younge

RE: Windows XP Support

2016-01-11 Thread Jon Beniston
Windows XP still accounts for about 10% of desktop users... Similar to the total number of Mac users. Maybe some browser OS stats from cygwin.com would be illuminating. Jon -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: Windows XP Support

2016-01-11 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 9:38 AM, wilson wrote: > I'd like to say a sincere thank you to Corina (and the rest of the team) for > supporting XP for this long, and I hope she stays so busy the issue of > removing XP support never becomes a priority. :) I rather expect it will more be a matter of a bu

Re: Windows XP Support

2016-01-11 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 6:52 PM, Juan Miguel Navarro Martínez wrote: > No software version can live forever, ... Personally, I have to disagree with this statement, or at least offer an amendment... I have some things still running in DOS 5 in a virtual machine because that is the most effective

Re: Windows XP Support

2016-01-11 Thread Warren Young
On Jan 10, 2016, at 5:12 AM, Herbert Stocker wrote: > > WinXP is still a good OS. That was only true while Microsoft was maintaining it. Now there are many known security vulnerabilities which will never be patched. I expect there are other problems with it, too, like incorrect time zone sup

Re: Windows XP Support

2016-01-11 Thread Warren Young
On Jan 11, 2016, at 4:52 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Continuing support for XP and Server 2003 is really becoming a > burden. It requires to code and maintain workarounds which are not > required anymore in newer OSes, so I really would like to get rid of > that stuff. I seem to recall you

Re: Cannot Run Executable Files

2016-01-11 Thread Mark Hansen
On 1/11/2016 7:41 AM, Warren Young wrote: On Jan 9, 2016, at 2:11 AM, Zac G. Al Wakeel wrote: For the archives, would you say which software was causing the problem? I was using Avast, free software. Then I recommend uninstalling it and switching to Windows Defender. I predict that yo

Re: Pipes Again -- a simple test case

2016-01-11 Thread Henri
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > Can you please provide the socket testcase? Trying to send you what you ask for (using gmane.org, I have to copy/paste) - t_stat3.c: /*\ * Copyright (C) Michael Ker

Re: Pipes Again -- a simple test case

2016-01-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 11 15:35, Henri wrote: > Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > > > > As a final point, I also tested FIFOs and (unix domain) sockets. > > > > > > > > FIFOs pass the test, sockets do not. > > > > > > Yes, that's expected. The underlying hack^Wmethod is the same for sockets > > > and p

Re: Cannot Run Executable Files

2016-01-11 Thread Warren Young
On Jan 9, 2016, at 2:11 AM, Zac G. Al Wakeel wrote: > >> For the archives, would you say which software was causing the problem? > > I was using Avast, free software. Then I recommend uninstalling it and switching to Windows Defender. I predict that your problems will not return. -- Problem

Re: Pipes Again -- a simple test case

2016-01-11 Thread Henri
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > > As a final point, I also tested FIFOs and (unix domain) sockets. > > > > > > FIFOs pass the test, sockets do not. > > > > Yes, that's expected. The underlying hack^Wmethod is the same for sockets > > and pipes, while FIFOs have a real path on a real f

Re: Windows XP Support

2016-01-11 Thread wilson
On Jan 10 13:12, Herbert Stocker wrote: Hi, i have read that beginning this month Cygwin wants to drop support for Windows XP. Though the home page and FAQ entry 12 do not talk about this. Are they out of date or is WinXP still supported? So far, nothing has changed, XP is still supported. I

Re: Pipes Again -- a simple test case

2016-01-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 8 17:30, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 8 17:12, Houder wrote: > > On 2016-01-08 16:19, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >On Jan 4 10:24, Houder wrote: > > >>On 2016-01-04 09:52, Marco Atzeri wrote: > > >>>On 04/01/2016 09:03, Houder wrote: > > Hi Corinna, > > > > I have been lo

Re: Windows XP Support

2016-01-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 10 13:12, Herbert Stocker wrote: > Hi, > > i have read that beginning this month Cygwin wants to drop support > for Windows XP. Though the home page and FAQ entry 12 do not talk > about this. Are they out of date or is WinXP still supported? So far, nothing has changed, XP is still suppor

Re: Question about incorrect System path from cygpath with case-sensitivity enabled

2016-01-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 10 22:54, Bryan Henry wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > Sorry for the delay getting back to you. I tested out the cygpath > binary from the latest snapshot and confirmed that it fixes my issue. > Thank for you making the change! You're welcome. Thanks for testing. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen

Re: cygwin.dll: bug with select on Windows console

2016-01-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 10 05:04, John Hood wrote: > On 1/9/2016 9:41 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >I fixed the code and took the opportunity to clean it up a little using > >>basically the (fixed) patch I proposed two days ago. > >> > >>I've just uploaded new developer snapshots tohttps://cygwin.com/snapshots/ >

Error "exit code=-1073741819" while upgrading Cygwin remotely through sshd

2016-01-11 Thread Ronald Pina
Hello I am trying to upgrade Cygwin on Win7 remotely through sshd, using some small scripts but without success it always show: Changing gid back to original running: c:\cygwin\bin\dash.exe "/etc/postinstall/0p_000_autorebase.dash" abnormal exit: exit code=-1073741819 running: c:\cygwin\b