I would prefer update rather than wait until it has broken.

those are 32-bit executable in j64 distribution.  I prefer use
64-bit if available because it will not spawn wow64.

Ср, 20 мар 2013, Ric Tikkanz писал(а):
> I haven't looked in to these recently, but my memory is that I struck
> a problem with wget on Windows when I was working on web/gethttp to do
> with stdout/stderr - will search the forums later.
> 
> The following will hopefully help inform any discussion.
> Below is a summary for each of the tools of: the currently J-shipped
> version; the latest released version and the changelog.
> 
> Current versions shipped with J are:
> wget.exe: 1.10.2  vs 1.13.4
> http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/wget/trunk/annotate/2563/NEWS
> 
> jpcre.dll: Not sure but probably 6.6 or 6.7  vs 8.32
> http://www.pcre.org/changelog.txt
> 
> unzip.exe: 5.52
> http://www.info-zip.org/UnZip.html
> 
> zip.exe: 2.32
> http://www.info-zip.org/Zip.html
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Ric Sherlock <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> The binaries for ftp, regex & zip/unzip that are currently shipped with J
> >> are getting rather long in the tooth (2005/6). Would it make sense to
> >> update them for the J8 release?
> >
> > "long in the tooth" is a feature, for people that like stuff that
> > works for a long time.
> >
> > it can be worth upgrading when there's useful innovations that can be
> > adopted or when something is broken. But both of these cases deserve
> > documentation.
> >
> > Are either of these the case yet?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > Raul
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