On 08/01/2010 15:14, Gary Johnson wrote:
> I'm in the process of migrating my various Cygwin installations from
> 1.5 to 1.7.  I see that nickle doesn't seem to be available any
> longer from Cygwin Ports.  Are there plans to release it for 1.7?

I hadn't planned to, for this very reason:

 > I know that it has issues with terminal I/O, but I usually pipe
> expressions into it anyway, so that's not a major problem for me.

Actually, there is an issue with *all* I/O; for instance, the nickle 
cairo bindings are unusable because the UI is not responsive.  I believe 
the issue is with nickle/file.c, which uses asynchronous I/O with either 
O_ASYNC (linux-specific?) or I_SETSIG (POSIX), neither of which Cygwin 
supports.

That being said, since you find nickle usable despite this (rather 
large) limitation, I have packaged the latest nickle release for 1.7 and 
it will be part of the next upload.

Thanks for the feedback,


Yaakov
Cygwin Ports

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