RE: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution

2004-10-02 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > I'm one of the maintainers of the Cygwin DLL ... [and] > about 25 ported > > software packages. > > Creating a distribution ... is clearly the job for somebody else. > > OK Corinna is very busy. > All people involved are very busy. > Jorg Schaible wrote: > > Wi

Re: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole cygwin release/ distribution

2004-10-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 09:49:29PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >David Christensen wrote: > >> If we can build a fully automated Cygwin "stable" test suite and >> parallelize it across many computers (wishful thinking: SETI screen >> saver), it may be possible to do 100% testing of all changes prior

Re: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution

2004-10-02 Thread Brian Dessent
David Christensen wrote: > If we can build a fully automated Cygwin "stable" test suite and > parallelize it across many computers (wishful thinking: SETI screen > saver), it may be possible to do 100% testing of all changes prior to > release -- major, minor, and updates. Fortunately for all the

Re: Fixing quoting in Outlook (Was RE: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole cygwin release/ distribution)

2004-10-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 12:09:24AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, David Christensen wrote: > >> Thank you all for your comments. I have tried to respond to each person >> who replied, but may have omitted those where their topic is already >> covered below. >> [snip] >> >> Da

Re: Weird bug with cp -f

2004-10-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 12:03:42AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >Works just fine for me. > >(WJJFM?) Try again: WJFFM. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.

Fixing quoting in Outlook (Was RE: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution)

2004-10-02 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, David Christensen wrote: > Thank you all for your comments. I have tried to respond to each person > who replied, but may have omitted those where their topic is already > covered below. > [snip] > > Dave Korn wrote: > > http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PCYMTNQREAIYR > > Is there a

Re: Weird bug with cp -f

2004-10-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 10:51:38PM -0700, Ben Wing wrote: >Try this, latest Cygwin, Win2k latest: > >/xemacs/cygbuild/build-mule/src 2049% cat > foo >foo [hit ^D] >/xemacs/cygbuild/build-mule/src 2050% od -bc foo >000 146 157 157 015 012 > f o o \r \n >005 >/xemacs/cygbuild/b

Weird bug with cp -f

2004-10-02 Thread Ben Wing
Try this, latest Cygwin, Win2k latest: /xemacs/cygbuild/build-mule/src 2049% cat > foo foo [hit ^D] /xemacs/cygbuild/build-mule/src 2050% od -bc foo 000 146 157 157 015 012 f o o \r \n 005 /xemacs/cygbuild/build-mule/src 2051% cp foo bar /xemacs/cygbuild/build-mule/src 2052

RE: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution

2004-10-02 Thread David Christensen
Thank you all for your comments. I have tried to respond to each person who replied, but may have omitted those where their topic is already covered below. Corinna Vinschen wrote: > I'm one of the maintainers of the Cygwin DLL ... [and] about 25 > ported software packages. > Creating a distrib

RE: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution

2004-10-02 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > No, test development should be done by people not involved with the > > development of the software under test, or you have a > conflict of interest. > > Not entirely true. There's "whitebox" testing -- where > knowledge of internals is used to craft the test; t

Re: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution

2004-10-02 Thread Charles Wilson
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: No, test development should be done by people not involved with the development of the software under test, or you have a conflict of interest. Not entirely true. There's "whitebox" testing -- where knowledge of internals is used to craft the test; this is often done by

Re: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole cygwin release/ distribution

2004-10-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 12:03:02PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >David Christensen wrote: >>This wish was inspired by my positive experiences with Debian "stable" >>-- e.g. feature frozen, unit and integration tested, with updates >>limited to bug and security fixes. >> >>Please note that Debian is

RE: cp to flash drive very slow

2004-10-02 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
you wrote: > What happens if you cp between two hard drives, or across the > network? Same > crazy slowness? > > -- > Gary R. Van Sickle How about 'tar --diff' and '--update' - tried them? /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE Microcomputer systems--72--> ** mailing list preference; p

RE: A good way to test if cygwin isn't installed?

2004-10-02 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
you ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on : > On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 01:19:39PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 06:08:48PM +0100, Hughes, Bill wrote: >>> Andrew DeFaria wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> ..snip.. > If you have cygwin programs available to you, then

Re: Scanf bug

2004-10-02 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Brian Dessent wrote: > Ben Wing wrote: > > > > Somehow or other, sscanf() has gotten messed up in recent Cygwin > > installations. > > I believe this probably belongs on the newlib list, since Cygwin uses > newlib for libc. CGF already forwarded this report there. > That said

Re: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution

2004-10-02 Thread Brian Dessent
David Christensen wrote: > This wish was inspired by my positive experiences with Debian "stable" > -- e.g. feature frozen, unit and integration tested, with updates > limited to bug and security fixes. > > Please note that Debian is a volunteer effort: > > http://www.debian.org/devel/jo

RE: [OT] RE: cp to flash drive very slow

2004-10-02 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
That is simultaneously so sweet and so wrong. I wonder which Device Class that one falls under ;-). -- Gary R. Van Sickle > -Original Message- > From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 9:36 AM > To: Gary R. Van Sickle > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution

2004-10-02 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Thank you all for your replies thus far. I suspected that my > posting would generate traffic. :-) > > > > I would especially like to request that there be a "stable" > distribution. > > This wish was inspired by my positive experiences with Debian "stable" > -- e.g.

RE: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution

2004-10-02 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> On Oct 1 05:08, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > 1. Roll up your sleeves, get to work, and let the list know when > > you're done. "The maintainers" (yes, I'm looking at you > Chris) will > > at best see this as a threat to their little fifedom, and the only > > "help" you'll get will be in t

RE: [OT] RE: cp to flash drive very slow

2004-10-02 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > > >>> Well, yes. The flash drive is a Sandisk Cruzer Mini which is USB > >>> 2.0 with fallback to 1.1. The computer is a Dell Dimension 4600 > >>> which claims eight USB 2.0 connectiors. > >>> Running Windows XP.

Re: Memory debugging under cygwin

2004-10-02 Thread Reid Thompson
splint is available via setup also. www.splint.org Maarten Boekhold wrote: Hi all, I have a program that segfaults, and it's quite obvious that this is caused due to some memory corruption. Except it segfaults at a place where, if running it in gdb, there shouldn't be a problem. There seems to b

Re: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole cygwin release/ distribution

2004-10-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 12:03:09AM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > There is no reason to include the email address in your messages. That just adds spam fodder to the archives. >>p.s. I hereby volunteer my time to work on implementing my request. > >I'm still waiting to hear from somebody "in

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: pango-1.6.0-1

2004-10-02 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Pango has been updated NEWS Cygwin: Use GLib 2.4.5, latest gettext, libiconv & binutils releases. General: This is a stable release providing new functionality as compared to Pango-1.4, while maintaining source and binary compatibility. Notable improvements in Pango since

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: atk-1.8.0-1

2004-10-02 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
ATK has been updated to version 1.8.0 NEWS Regular update to the latest upstream release. DESCRIPTION === The ATK library provides a set of interfaces for accessibility. By supporting the ATK interfaces, an application or toolkit can be used with such tools as screen readers, magni

RE: Memory debugging under cygwin

2004-10-02 Thread Dan Osborne
There's a package called Memory Watcher/memwatch designed for cygwin which I've used. I can't find a URL but this is from the README and a web search should find it ... Memory Watcher == This is a little library for tracing memory related api calls on cygwin using gcc. Features: - d

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: glib2-2.4.6-2

2004-10-02 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
I have updated GLib, the low-level core library that forms the basis for projects such as GTK+ and GNOME to version 2.4.6. DESCRIPTION === The GLib library provides data structure handling for C, portability wrappers, and interfaces for such runtime functionality as an event loop, threads

Memory debugging under cygwin

2004-10-02 Thread Maarten Boekhold
Hi all, I have a program that segfaults, and it's quite obvious that this is caused due to some memory corruption. Except it segfaults at a place where, if running it in gdb, there shouldn't be a problem. There seems to be some memory corruption somewhere, and I can't figure out where. I tried

RE: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution

2004-10-02 Thread David Christensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thank you all for your replies thus far. I suspected that my posting would generate traffic. :-) > I would especially like to request that there be a "stable" distribution. This wish was inspired by my positive experiences with Debian "stable" -- e.g. feature frozen, unit a