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Re: Anyone want to be the "expect" package maintainer?


On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 01:46:19PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
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>According to Christopher Faylor on 8/15/2008 11:11 AM:
>> I haven't updated the expect package in many years.  It used to be based
>> on a hacked version of expect from the sourceware.org src repository but
>> that version has disappeared.  I asked the person responsible for the
>> disappearance if they would like to become the new package maintainer
>> for Cygwin and they said yes but that never materialized.
>> 
>> The definitive sources for expect are here: http://expect.nist.gov/ .
>
>I can at least give it a shot, since the findutils testsuite uses expect.
> I'll see what I can do with it this coming week, although I'm not very
>fluent in tcl.

FWIW, I'm in the process of trying to get the latest version of tcl
building for Cygwin.  It occurred to me that this might make it easier
to support expect.

So maybe you might want to hold off until I either release that or admit
defeat and look for a new tcl maintainer.  :-)

cgf

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