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setup.exe requests & bleadperl status (was: Re: Repost, different list...File::Spec, cygwin, Syntactic vs. Semantic path analysis)
- From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb at nyckelpiga dot de>
- To: "H.Merijn Brand" <h dot m dot brand at hccnet dot nl>
- Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 13:29:09 +0100
- Subject: setup.exe requests & bleadperl status (was: Re: Repost, different list...File::Spec, cygwin, Syntactic vs. Semantic path analysis)
- Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere
- References: <20030108152652.57A6.H.M.BRAND@hccnet.nl><20030109071638.GA13105@redhat.com> <20030109110744.4E8E.H.M.BRAND@hccnet.nl>
Hello H.Merijn,
H.M> Great. I'll continue off-list to get our goals in sync :)
Hmm, why not continue in public (cygwin/perl5-porters lists)?
(Blead-)Perl issues:
====================
>>> What's the stance of cygwin in threading?
CGF>> We're for it! We have pretty extensive pthreads support.
> FWIW I'm unable to build a threaded perl for at least since 1.3.14
And it was not possible before 1.3.14.
Setup.exe:
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Merijn, the discussion about setup.exe goes to cygwin-apps at cygwin.com
(only open for subscribers), I CC'ed there with your requests and the new
subject:
> 2. I'd like to see some more options in the setup process:
> - Never downgrade. At the moment, every time I run setup, it suggests to
> replace perl-5.8.0 with 5.6.1, something I will never do, and I have to
> check that time after time. [ This should include not downgrading exp.
> marked packages ]
> - Mark packages to never install. I for example realy hate 'info', so I do
> not want to install the "Doc" package.
> - Select the default view, not disabling the other two, but I always start
> with the last.
> - A forth view to show me the packages that are available, but not
> installed, so I can see what's new.
> - An option to see exp. as curr. so I don't have to run setup twice :)
> - remember that I do *not* want a desktop icon or a menu entry. I've
> assigned shortcut keys to cygwin, and I don't want to clutter the desktop
More (Blead-)Perl issues:
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[smoke results snipped]
I don't see bleadperl failing completely, there is one 'new' failure I
didn't see before:
Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
../lib/IPC/Open3.t 22 1 4.55% 22
[...]
Was this smoke run done with the latest cygwin-snapshot?
And if so, was it the same or was it worse before the snapshot?
Gerrit
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