-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A new package, dash 0.5.5.1-1, is now available for use in cygwin 1.7, providing users with a chance to test alternate shells.
NEWS: ===== This is a new package, built out of the box from the latest upstream version. As a shell, dash is faster than bash in many respects, but it does have the drawback of lacking LINENO support, which makes it slower for starting autoconf-generated configure scripts. So for now, there are no plans of replacing /bin/sh with dash. See also the upstream documentation in /usr/share/doc/dash/. DESCRIPTION: ============ DASH is a POSIX-compliant implementation of /bin/sh that aims to be as small as possible. It does this without sacrificing speed where possible. In fact, it is significantly faster than bash (the GNU Bourne-Again SHell) for most tasks. UPDATE: ======= To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions and pick up 'dash' from the 'Shells' category. Be sure that you do not have any cygwin programs running during the upgrade. DOWNLOAD: ========= Note that downloads from cygwin.com aren't allowed due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: ========== If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. - -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin dash maintainer CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: ================================= To unsubscribe to the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain....@cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sourceware.org/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpV3WwACgkQ84KuGfSFAYAjkwCgigIFGBJhVxzKKMWhhRQMW0Tj WY8An3NpW/9wcZy70H14AeGnhsffRnpH =3LZ6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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
