Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl? (indent DONE)

2014-11-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 2 09:33, Jari Aalto wrote: > 2014-11-01 21:16 Corinna Vinschen : > | > | > > indent > | > > | > Not sure this is needed either. > | > | Removed on sourceware. > | > | Jari, can you please keep track of this change? > > Uploaded new x64 *-2 without texinfo dependency. Thanks

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl? (indent DONE)

2014-11-02 Thread Jari Aalto
2014-11-01 21:16 Corinna Vinschen : | | > > indent | > | > Not sure this is needed either. | | Removed on sourceware. | | Jari, can you please keep track of this change? Uploaded new x64 *-2 without texinfo dependency. Thanks. Jari pgpz25O3CUgov.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-11-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 1 14:12, Ken Brown wrote: > On 11/1/2014 1:34 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Nov 1 12:07, Ken Brown wrote: > >>On 11/1/2014 11:51 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>>On Oct 31 16:24, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On 2014-10-31 16:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Oct 31 16:47, Ken Brow

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-11-01 Thread Ken Brown
On 11/1/2014 1:34 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 1 12:07, Ken Brown wrote: On 11/1/2014 11:51 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 31 16:24, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: On 2014-10-31 16:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 31 16:47, Ken Brown wrote: Sounds good to me. I'll repackage within a f

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-11-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 1 12:07, Ken Brown wrote: > On 11/1/2014 11:51 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Oct 31 16:24, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > >>On 2014-10-31 16:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>>On Oct 31 16:47, Ken Brown wrote: > Sounds good to me. I'll repackage within a few days. Thanks. > >>> > >>>We n

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-11-01 Thread Ken Brown
On 11/1/2014 11:51 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 31 16:24, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: On 2014-10-31 16:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 31 16:47, Ken Brown wrote: On 10/31/2014 3:56 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: Fedora splits out texinfo into 3 packages: 1) texinfo: makeinfo, texi2any, pod

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-11-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 31 16:24, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On 2014-10-31 16:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Oct 31 16:47, Ken Brown wrote: > >>On 10/31/2014 3:56 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > >>>Fedora splits out texinfo into 3 packages: > >>> > >>>1) texinfo: makeinfo, texi2any, pod2texi, /usr/share/texinfo, >

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-10-31 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On 2014-10-31 16:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 31 16:47, Ken Brown wrote: On 10/31/2014 3:56 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: Fedora splits out texinfo into 3 packages: 1) texinfo: makeinfo, texi2any, pod2texi, /usr/share/texinfo, /usr/share/info/texinfo* 2) info: info, infokey, install-info,

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-10-31 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 31 16:47, Ken Brown wrote: > On 10/31/2014 3:56 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > >On 2014-10-31 14:35, Ken Brown wrote: > >>On 10/31/2014 12:59 PM, Steven Penny wrote: > >>>On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Steven Penny wrote: > Because of this dependency line > >>> > >>>This issue is back a

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-10-31 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/31/2014 3:56 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: On 2014-10-31 14:35, Ken Brown wrote: On 10/31/2014 12:59 PM, Steven Penny wrote: On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Steven Penny wrote: Because of this dependency line This issue is back again, now with bash _update-info-dir texinfo

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-10-31 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On 2014-10-31 14:35, Ken Brown wrote: On 10/31/2014 12:59 PM, Steven Penny wrote: On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Steven Penny wrote: Because of this dependency line This issue is back again, now with bash _update-info-dir texinfo perl This is a side effect of the fact that

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-10-31 Thread Achim Gratz
Steven Penny writes: > On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Steven Penny wrote: >> Because of this dependency line > > This issue is back again, now with > > bash > _update-info-dir > texinfo > perl Texinfo5 is implemented in Perl. Unless install-info gets split into a separate package th

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-10-31 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/31/2014 12:59 PM, Steven Penny wrote: On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Steven Penny wrote: Because of this dependency line This issue is back again, now with bash _update-info-dir texinfo perl This is a side effect of the fact that I switched to cygport for packaging wh

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-10-31 Thread Steven Penny
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Steven Penny wrote: > Because of this dependency line This issue is back again, now with bash _update-info-dir texinfo perl Previous http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-06/msg00279.html http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-08/msg00152.html -- Problem report

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-06-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 18 16:14, Chris J. Breisch wrote: > Steven Penny wrote: > >On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Steven Penny wrote: > >>Because of this dependency line > > > >This issue is back again, now with > > > >man-db > > lynx > > perl > > > >OP > >http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-08/msg00152.html >

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-06-18 Thread Achim Gratz
Chris J. Breisch writes: > lynx depends on perl. I'm not 100% sure this is a valid dependency. It isn't, scripts in the doc folder shouldn't trigger a dependency. On x86 this dependency isn't there, only on x86_64 -- which indicates it is a function of the cygport version that generated the packa

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-06-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 06/18/2014 04:25 PM, Douglas Coup wrote: Objective Systems, Inc. REAL WORLD ASN.1 AND XML SOLUTIONS Tel: +1 (484) 875-9841 Fax: +1 (484) 875-9830 Toll-free: (877) 307-6855 (USA only) http://www.obj-sys.com On 6/18/2014 4:14 PM, Chris J. Breisch wrote: Steven Penny wrote: On Fri, Aug 9, 201

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-06-18 Thread Douglas Coup
Objective Systems, Inc. REAL WORLD ASN.1 AND XML SOLUTIONS Tel: +1 (484) 875-9841 Fax: +1 (484) 875-9830 Toll-free: (877) 307-6855 (USA only) http://www.obj-sys.com On 6/18/2014 4:14 PM, Chris J. Breisch wrote: Steven Penny wrote: On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Steven Penny wrote: Because o

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-06-18 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Steven Penny wrote: On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Steven Penny wrote: Because of this dependency line This issue is back again, now with man-db lynx perl OP http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-08/msg00152.html Yes, this is true, and my guess is that it will remain so. man-db depe

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-06-18 Thread Steven Penny
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Steven Penny wrote: > Because of this dependency line This issue is back again, now with man-db lynx perl OP http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-08/msg00152.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.co

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-01-14 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On 2014-01-13 13:21, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > lftp also has this problem. It comes with a few sample scripts, two of > > which > > are in Perl. I include the sample scripts because why not, but cygport is > > now > > quite diligent about finding this sort of thing, with the result that its

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-01-13 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 2014-01-13 13:21, Andrew Schulman wrote: lftp also has this problem. It comes with a few sample scripts, two of which are in Perl. I include the sample scripts because why not, but cygport is now quite diligent about finding this sort of thing, with the result that its automatically-generate

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-01-13 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Andrew Schulman writes: > > lftp also has this problem. It comes with a few sample scripts, two of > > which > > are in Perl. I include the sample scripts because why not, but cygport is > > now > > quite diligent about finding this sort of thing, with the result that its > > automatically-ge

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-01-13 Thread Achim Gratz
Andrew Schulman writes: > lftp also has this problem. It comes with a few sample scripts, two of which > are in Perl. I include the sample scripts because why not, but cygport is now > quite diligent about finding this sort of thing, with the result that its > automatically-generated setup.hint n

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-01-13 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 2014-01-13 12:22, Christopher Faylor wrote: Actually, I didn't upload the 64-bit groff. This is one of the reasons why I had reservations about people other than the package maintainers uploading packages. The end result is that I'm forced to deal with someone else's decision. This has been

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-01-13 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Because of this dependency line > > man > groff > perl > > A base 64-bit Cygwin install now requires Perl. Can this be changed? While > Perl > is a fine language I hardly feel it is appropriate to add that bulk to a base > install. > > Note this issue is only with the 64-bit version, the b

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-01-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 01:22:52PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:39:50AM -0700, Warren Young wrote: >>On 8/9/2013 11:17, Steven Penny wrote: >>> Because of this dependency line >>> >>> man >>> groff >>>perl >> >>The groff package includes several helper programs

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-01-13 Thread Warren Young
On 1/13/2014 11:22, Christopher Faylor wrote: In retrospect, it would have potentially made sense to use the same versions and packaging for the 64-bit as for the 32-bit. That might have minimized this type of problem. An argument could be made that since these helper programs are not core t

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-01-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:39:50AM -0700, Warren Young wrote: >On 8/9/2013 11:17, Steven Penny wrote: >> Because of this dependency line >> >> man >> groff >>perl > >The groff package includes several helper programs written in Perl: >afmtodit, groffer, and grog. > >Red Hat and Mandriva spli

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-01-13 Thread Warren Young
On 8/9/2013 11:17, Steven Penny wrote: Because of this dependency line man groff perl The groff package includes several helper programs written in Perl: afmtodit, groffer, and grog. Red Hat and Mandriva split these utilities out into a separate package[*] but that would be something

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-01-13 Thread Steven Penny
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 6:12 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote > Not that I'm aware of. Perl requirements are pretty basic these days. If we're not going to have Python we shouldn't have Perl either. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-05/msg00211.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-01-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 12 09:51, Steven Penny wrote: > On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Steven Penny wrote > > A base 64-bit Cygwin install now requires Perl. Can this be changed? > > Any updates? It has been 5 months Not that I'm aware of. Perl requirements are pretty basic these days. Corinna -- Corinna V

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-01-12 Thread Steven Penny
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Steven Penny wrote > A base 64-bit Cygwin install now requires Perl. Can this be changed? Any updates? It has been 5 months -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2013-08-15 Thread Daniel Jensen
Warren Young wrote: > Name a currently shipping Unixy system that does *not* have Perl installed by > default. "default" seems to me to be the wrong thing to compare to cygwin base. I don't think most cygwin users would be pleased to see cygwin's base install inflated to mimic most distros' d

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2013-08-15 Thread Warren Young
On 8/9/2013 11:17, Steven Penny wrote: A base 64-bit Cygwin install now requires Perl. Can this be changed? While Perl is a fine language I hardly feel it is appropriate to add that bulk to a base install. Name a currently shipping Unixy system that does *not* have Perl installed by default.

Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2013-08-09 Thread Steven Penny
Because of this dependency line man groff perl A base 64-bit Cygwin install now requires Perl. Can this be changed? While Perl is a fine language I hardly feel it is appropriate to add that bulk to a base install. Note this issue is only with the 64-bit version, the base 32-bit Cygwin install