Hi Warren, On Sep 19 08:56, Warren Young wrote: > On 9/18/2014 11:44, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: > > > >I'm looking for any volunteers to take over > >maintainership of the following packages: mksh > > I'm also somewhat interested in this one. I've never been a Korn shell > user, but I recently learned about mksh and its place in Bourne family shell > history. [1] Only a ksh93 package would be more valuable, but until someone > adopts that, I think mksh still has a place in Cygwin. > > More questions: > > 1. Where is the source package? setup.exe doesn't offer it.
It's definitely available on cygwin.com, and it's also mentioned in setup.ini. > 2. Have you cygported it yet? I built it from the official tarball, and > while it has a primitive non-Autotools build system, it looks compatible > with cygport. Yes, Chris cygported it already. > 3. Other than time, is there a reason you haven't released R50b yet? It > seems to pass its own test suite here, so if I adopt it, I'm committing to > releasing R50b shortly, unless there are traps I haven't discovered. > > 4. What do you think about replacing mksh in Cygwin with ksh93? It seems > OSS-enough to make Red Hat happy. [2] ksh93 comes with a compatibility layer lib called AST. I don't think this lib has ever been ported to Cygwin 1.7. The last official binary release for Cygwin is for 32 bit only, dated 2012-08-06. From the README files in the sources I gather the latest Cygwin patch is from 2004, which is way back in the Cygwin 1.5 era. A quick scan of the latest released source shows that AST still uses the pre-1.7 path conversion functions which are not available on 64 bit Cygwin. There's a bit of porting required I guess. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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