Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-12 Thread Warren Young
David Dindorp wrote: Jokes aside, I can't respond to the fact that you don't believe a word I say with anything else than "you obviously don't have a clue". Chris wasn't saying he didn't believe anything you say. Chris has infinitely more credibility when it comes to judgements of Cygwin complex

Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 08:46:32PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Apr 10 13:28, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >>On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Hans Horn wrote: >>>Looks like bash2.x install in /usr/bin while bash3.x installs in >>>/usr/local/bin. Is that ok? >> >>No, it isn't. Cygwin programs get installed

Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 10 13:28, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Hans Horn wrote: > > Looks like bash2.x install in /usr/bin while bash3.x installs in > > /usr/local/bin. Is that ok? > > No, it isn't. Cygwin programs get installed in /usr/bin. If the upstream > package doesn't go there by defau

Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Hans Horn wrote: > Folks, > > > If you are still willing then you've got the job. > Alright, I'm on - despite a rough start! Hans, if you plan to maintain a package, you really ought to subscribe to the cygwin-apps list. Packaging discussions should take place there. I'm sen

Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-10 Thread Hans Horn
Folks, > If you are still willing then you've got the job. Alright, I'm on - despite a rough start! > There is one potential problem in that we may need to adapt Pierre's > patch to prevent problems with pid reuse to 3.0 if it is released. How do I go about Pierre's pid patch? > The next step

Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-09 Thread David Dindorp
I wrote: >> Cygwin is as complex as a Linux kernel. Christopher Faylor wrote: > *snort* Your lack of credibility is showing. Your lifelong devotion to being hateful instead of constructive is showing? Jokes aside, I can't respond to the fact that you don't believe a word I say with anything els

Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 03:40:12AM +0200, David Dindorp wrote: >Cygwin is as complex as a Linux kernel. *snort* Your lack of credibility is showing. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-09 Thread David Dindorp
Dave Korn wrote: If you can tell me how to proceed from here, I'd be happy to throw in a bunch of manhours to try and find out what's wrong. >>> >>> http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PPAST >> >> Obviously, if I were able to produce a simple testcase, I would have. >> Duh ;-). > > There's no

Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-08 Thread Andrew Schulman
> There is one potential problem in that we may need to adapt Pierre's > patch to prevent problems with pid reuse to 3.0 if it is released. Besides that, looking at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bash/bash-3.0- patches/, I see 16 patches. I hope all of those will be applied to a Cygwin bash 3.0 packa

RE: maintaining bash

2005-04-08 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: David Dindorp >Sent: 08 April 2005 16:14 >>> If you can tell me how to proceed from here, I'd be happy to throw in >>> a bunch of manhours to try and find out what's wrong. >> >> http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PPAST > > Obviously, if I were able to produce a simple

Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-08 Thread David Dindorp
>> If you can tell me how to proceed from here, I'd be happy to throw in >> a bunch of manhours to try and find out what's wrong. > > http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PPAST Obviously, if I were able to produce a simple testcase, I would have. Duh ;-). -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#

Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-08 Thread David Dindorp
>> If you can tell me how to proceed from here, I'd be happy to throw in >> a bunch of manhours to try and find out what's wrong. > > If you are happy to throw a bunch of manhours to try and find out what's > wrong, then the solution is obvious -- learn cygwin that well. Manhours. Not entire lif

RE: maintaining bash

2005-04-08 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: David Dindorp >Sent: 08 April 2005 14:06 > > If you can tell me how to proceed from here, I'd be happy to throw in > a bunch of manhours to try and find out what's wrong. http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PPAST I'm surprised, myself, I find bash very reliable.

Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 03:06:02PM +0200, David Dindorp wrote: >Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Apr 8 12:19, David Dindorp wrote: >>> To be fair, this is probably more a Cygwin DLL problem than a bash >>> problem, or perhaps a "bash hasn't kept up with changes in Cygwin >>> because the maintainer ha

Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-08 Thread David Dindorp
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 8 12:19, David Dindorp wrote: >> To be fair, this is probably more a Cygwin DLL problem than a bash >> problem, or perhaps a "bash hasn't kept up with changes in Cygwin >> because the maintainer haven't had the time" problem. It's running >> quite stable under 1.5

Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-08 Thread David Dindorp
Brian Dessent wrote: > David Dindorp wrote: >> Uhm. No it's not.. >> Bash 2.05b is so unstable under Cygwin that it classifies as a >> volatile chemical. At least if you put it under a lot of pressure - >> a normal users everyday use it may cope fine with, which is probably >> how it's used by mo

Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-08 Thread Brian Dessent
David Dindorp wrote: > Uhm. No it's not.. > Bash 2.05b is so unstable under Cygwin that it classifies as a > volatile chemical. At least if you put it under a lot of pressure - > a normal users everyday use it may cope fine with, which is probably > how it's used by most people in here anyway. >

Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 8 12:19, David Dindorp wrote: > To be fair, this is probably more a Cygwin DLL problem than a bash > problem, or perhaps a "bash hasn't kept up with changes in Cygwin > because the maintainer haven't had the time" problem. It's running > quite stable under 1.5.10, it sucks with 1.5.12 and

Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-08 Thread David Dindorp
Brian Dessent wrote: > Furthermore, threads in the past have > expressed the fact that 2.05b has been very stable and both Ronald and > others have agreed that any major changes in bash would have to be > done very carefully so as not to cause instability. Uhm. No it's not.. Bash 2.05b is so unst

Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 7 22:20, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 05:10:14PM -0700, Hans Horn wrote: > >Nevermind! Sorry, folks - I really didn't mean to upset anybody! Bye then! > > No, no. Please. We are looking for a new bash maintainer. We haven't > heard from the maintainer in a while a

Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 05:10:14PM -0700, Hans Horn wrote: >Nevermind! Sorry, folks - I really didn't mean to upset anybody! Bye then! No, no. Please. We are looking for a new bash maintainer. We haven't heard from the maintainer in a while and private email to him bounces. That is what prompt

Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-07 Thread Hans Horn
Nevermind! Sorry, folks - I really didn't mean to upset anybody! Bye then! H. Brian Dessent wrote: > Jonathan Arnold wrote: > >> Hans Horn wrote: >>> Oops - didn't see this one! Just posted offer as bash voluteer >>> myself! >>> Was looking for bash 3.0 in the archives. >>> If Jonathan still want

Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-07 Thread Brian Dessent
Jonathan Arnold wrote: > Hans Horn wrote: > > Oops - didn't see this one! Just posted offer as bash voluteer myself! > > Was looking for bash 3.0 in the archives. > > If Jonathan still wants to maintain bash 3.0, of course, I will withdraw my > > offer. > > Yeah, sorry, I just haven't been able

Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-07 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Jonathan Arnold wrote: Hans Horn wrote: Oops - didn't see this one! Just posted offer as bash voluteer myself! Was looking for bash 3.0 in the archives. If Jonathan still wants to maintain bash 3.0, of course, I will withdraw my offer. Yeah, sorry, I just haven't been able to get to it - crunch t

Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-07 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Hans Horn wrote: Oops - didn't see this one! Just posted offer as bash voluteer myself! Was looking for bash 3.0 in the archives. If Jonathan still wants to maintain bash 3.0, of course, I will withdraw my offer. Yeah, sorry, I just haven't been able to get to it - crunch time here at work. If y

Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-07 Thread Hans Horn
Oops - didn't see this one! Just posted offer as bash voluteer myself! Was looking for bash 3.0 in the archives. If Jonathan still wants to maintain bash 3.0, of course, I will withdraw my offer. H. Tim Prince wrote: > At 06:35 AM 3/18/2005, Jonathan Arnold wrote: > > >> I don't know what to do

Re: maintaining bash

2005-03-18 Thread Tim Prince
At 06:35 AM 3/18/2005, Jonathan Arnold wrote: I don't know what to do with the patches that I find in the http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-3.0-patches/ folder. How do you apply patches for GNU source? info patch typically, patch -p1 file.c Tim Prince -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/