[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Git v2.38.0

Version 2.38.0-1 of Git has been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution servers, and should be coming soon to a mirror near you. Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. This is an upda

guile 3.0.8: readline does not work - patch with also other fixes

Hi Guile-Maintainer, Hi Marco Atzeri, with e.g. guile 3.0.8-1 I noticed serveral problems. Most important one is not working readline support. You may check in guile via e.g.: (begin (use-modules (ice-9 readline))(activate-readline)) With e.g. guile3.0-3.0.8-1.src the shared library guile-readli

libffi: upgrade to libffi-3.4.3 proposed (cygport file attached)

Dear Maintainer(s), libffi is ORPHANED and outdated. Attached a cygport for newest libffi-3.4.3, which needs no extra patches. PS: libffi-3.4.3 is also used on MSYS2 without extra patches. Thanks! Hannes NAME="libffi" VERSION=3.4.3 RELEASE=1 CATEGORY="Libs" SUMMARY="Portable foreign function i

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: jdupes-1.21.0-2

Version 1.21.0-2 of neomutt has been uploaded. jdupes is a program for finding and acting on duplicate files This version should fix a packaging error of version 1.21.0-1. Federico -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documenta

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Perl distributions

The following Perl distributions have been updated to their latest release version available on CPAN: x86/x86_64 -- perl-Alien-Build-Plugin-Download-GitLab-0.01-1 perl-Alien-Libxml2-0.19-1 perl-FFI-CheckLib-0.31-1 perl-Term-ReadLine-Gnu-1.43-1 perl-Variable-Magic-0.63-1 perl-XML-Li

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xz 5.2.7-1

The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: xz-5.2.7-1 liblzma5-5.2.7-1 liblzma-devel-5.2.7-1 mingw64-i686-xz-5.2.7-1 mingw64-x86_64-xz-5.2.7-1 XZ Utils is free general-purpose data compression software with high compression ratio. XZ Utils are the successor to

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gnuplot-5.4.5-1

Gnuplot version 5.4.5 is now available on Cygwin. The upstream release notes for this bugfix / minor feature enhancement release are available at: http://www.gnuplot.info/ReleaseNotes_5_4_5.html Cygwin Notes The tutorial has been removed from the 5.4 branch of gnuplot, so it is

Re: guile 3.0.8: readline does not work - patch with also other fixes

On Tue, Oct 04, 2022 at 08:06:00PM +0200, Hannes M�ller wrote: > Hi Guile-Maintainer, > Hi Marco Atzeri, > > with e.g. guile 3.0.8-1 I noticed serveral problems. > > Most important one is not working readline support. You may check in > guile via e.g.: > (begin (use-modules (ice-9 readline))(ac

Frequent Warning messages using gv

Whenever I use gv on a PostScript file as in $ gv filename.ps then a (usually) successful display is (almost invariably) accompanied by Warning messages about font conversions. It is not obvious what limitations or errors are affecting the displayed output, if any, and I have got into the habit o