Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

2008-07-31 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Corinna Vinschen wrote: | - Creating filenames with special DOS characters '', '*', ':', '', | '', '|' is supported. | | - Creating files with special DOS device filename components (aux, | nul, prn) is supported. | | - File name are case

Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

2008-07-31 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 31 01:56, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Corinna Vinschen wrote: | - Creating filenames with special DOS characters '', '*', ':', '', | '', '|' is supported. | | - Creating files with special DOS device filename components (aux, |

Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

2008-07-31 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Corinna Vinschen wrote: | setup is a Win32 application. It won't know about this. Thou shalt | not create packages which rely on case-sensitivity as part of the | net distro. That's what I thought. So while managed mounts will no longer be

Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

2008-07-31 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 31 03:28, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Corinna Vinschen wrote: | setup is a Win32 application. It won't know about this. Thou shalt | not create packages which rely on case-sensitivity as part of the | net distro. That's what I

Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

2008-07-31 Thread Charles Wilson
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Illegal? The only illegal chars are slash and backslash, even on case-insensitive mounts. Does it really occur often that you have two filenames in the same dir only differing by case? I'd imagine aux and prn are still illegal, right? The numbers are fewer, these

Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

2008-07-31 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 31 08:59, Charles Wilson wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Illegal? The only illegal chars are slash and backslash, even on case-insensitive mounts. Does it really occur often that you have two filenames in the same dir only differing by case? I'd imagine aux and prn are still

Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

2008-07-31 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 31 15:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 31 08:59, Charles Wilson wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Illegal? The only illegal chars are slash and backslash, even on case-insensitive mounts. Does it really occur often that you have two filenames in the same dir only differing by

Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

2008-07-31 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 31 15:30, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 31 15:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 31 08:59, Charles Wilson wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Illegal? The only illegal chars are slash and backslash, even on case-insensitive mounts. Does it really occur often that you have two

Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

2008-07-31 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Corinna Vinschen wrote: | Illegal? The only illegal chars are slash and backslash, even on | case-insensitive mounts. Does it really occur often that you have two | filenames in the same dir only differing by case? For Cygwin I understand that,

Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

2008-07-31 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 31 10:05, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Corinna Vinschen wrote: | Illegal? The only illegal chars are slash and backslash, even on | case-insensitive mounts. Does it really occur often that you have two | filenames in the same dir only

Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

2008-07-31 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 31 16:10, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 31 15:30, Corinna Vinschen wrote: What still won't work, though is to start an application called, for instance, aux.exe. The reason is that the CreateProcess call in spawn/exec is still a Win32 call which will treat this filename as a DOS

Re: base-[files|password] for 1.7 (was Re: Cygwin 1.7.0-20 (was Re: Cygwin 1.7.0-19 (was Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2)))

2008-07-29 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 7/28/2008 9:27 AM: | # check the window size after each command and, if necessary, | # update the values of LINES and COLUMNS. | shopt -s checkwinsize | | would it work in cygwin? Also; | | Looks like bash on Cygwin

Re: base-[files|password] for 1.7 (was Re: Cygwin 1.7.0-20 (was Re: Cygwin 1.7.0-19 (was Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2)))

2008-07-29 Thread John Morrison
On Tue, July 29, 2008 12:37 pm, Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 7/28/2008 9:27 AM: | # check the window size after each command and, if necessary, | # update the values of LINES and COLUMNS. | shopt -s checkwinsize | | would

base-[files|password] for 1.7 (was Re: Cygwin 1.7.0-20 (was Re: Cygwin 1.7.0-19 (was Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2)))

2008-07-28 Thread John Morrison
On Tue, July 22, 2008 6:42 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote: You can now call mkpasswd and mkgroup without any -l or -d parameter and both tools choose by themselves what information to print, depending on the machine being a domain member machine or not. This should result in a matching

Re: base-[files|password] for 1.7 (was Re: Cygwin 1.7.0-20 (was Re: Cygwin 1.7.0-19 (was Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2)))

2008-07-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 28 15:51, John Morrison wrote: On Tue, July 22, 2008 6:42 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote: You can now call mkpasswd and mkgroup without any -l or -d parameter and both tools choose by themselves what information to print, depending on the machine being a domain member machine or

Re: base-[files|password] for 1.7 (was Re: Cygwin 1.7.0-20 (was Re: Cygwin 1.7.0-19 (was Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2)))

2008-07-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 05:27:50PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 28 15:51, John Morrison wrote: On Tue, July 22, 2008 6:42 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote: You can now call mkpasswd and mkgroup without any -l or -d parameter and both tools choose by themselves what information to

Re: Cygwin 1.7.0-20 (was Re: Cygwin 1.7.0-19 (was Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2))

2008-07-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I just uploaded 1.7.0-21. It contains the following important changes: - Fix for the fix for the problem with native Win32 apps described in this thread: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-07/msg00457.html My first solution didn't work for applications started from a remote share path

Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

2008-07-25 Thread Andrew Schulman
I'd be happy if even the most important packages have been rebuilt for 1.7. So far the reactions from the package maintainers were somewhat reticent. I think that'll probably alter once there's a setup for 1.7. Ditto here. Waiting for setup for 1.7, then I'll rebuild all of my

Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

2008-07-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 23 21:44, John Morrison wrote: On Wed, July 23, 2008 7:00 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I'd be happy if even the most important packages have been rebuilt for 1.7. So far the reactions from the package maintainers were somewhat reticent. I think that'll probably alter once there's

Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

2008-07-24 Thread John Morrison
On Thu, July 24, 2008 10:08 am, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 23 21:44, John Morrison wrote: On Wed, July 23, 2008 7:00 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I'd be happy if even the most important packages have been rebuilt for 1.7. So far the reactions from the package maintainers were somewhat

Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

2008-07-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 23 22:44, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Corinna Vinschen wrote: | I'd be happy if even the most important packages have been rebuilt for | 1.7. So far the reactions from the package maintainers were somewhat | reticent. I know I've

Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

2008-07-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 24 10:17, John Morrison wrote: On Thu, July 24, 2008 10:08 am, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Please with sugar? I only have windows at work now and all my time is 'allocated' to projects... trying! If I don't get it done before the weekend I'll get a virtual machine running. Promise.

Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

2008-07-24 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Corinna Vinschen wrote: | Honestly, I don't know. Maybe it isn't. But so far I'm still thinking | that a parallel 1.7 install should only be a temporary solution for | developers and maintainers. It's not something I would like to drag | on for

Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

2008-07-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 24 11:17, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Corinna Vinschen wrote: | Honestly, I don't know. Maybe it isn't. But so far I'm still thinking | that a parallel 1.7 install should only be a temporary solution for | developers and maintainers.

Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

2008-07-23 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Corinna Vinschen wrote: | When 1.7 goes gold, the idea is to install over an 1.5 install. Or not. | It's the choice of the user. Installing over 1.5 is supported by the | base-cygwin package, which is supposed to convert the registry mount |

Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

2008-07-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 23 12:25, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: | When 1.7 goes gold, the idea is to install over an 1.5 install. Or not. | It's the choice of the user. The advantage of starting fresh with 1.7 would allow us to dump a lot of obsolete packages from the distro [...]

Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

2008-07-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 21 18:42, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: I've considered making the switch, as the new features in 1.7 (namely IPv6 and wchar functions) would make porting *much* easier. It might also provide the chance to finally close the gap between Ports and the distro, and generally improve our

Cygwin 1.7.0-20 (was Re: Cygwin 1.7.0-19 (was Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2))

2008-07-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I just uploaded 1.7.0-20. It contains the following important changes: - Fix for the problem with native Win32 apps described in this thread: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-07/msg00457.html - Reworked mkpasswd and mkgroup tools including the documentation. The usage changed and you have

Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

2008-07-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 18 14:09, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 17 18:18, Eric Blake wrote: Somewhere between setting obcaseinsensitive to 0 yesterday and upgrading to the new cygwin1.dll today, I'm now suffering from an inability to modify files on a shared drive on my work machine. I

Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

2008-07-21 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Corinna Vinschen wrote: | again I would like to encourage the Cygwin maintainers, to try the new | Cygwin 1.7.0 release and to look for problems in their packages which | might be a result of the fairly massive changes in Cygwin 1.7. I | attached

Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

2008-07-19 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Corinna Vinschen ha scritto: On Jul 18 13:56, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 07:10:10PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 18 18:36, Marco Atzeri wrote: Is it still unable to handle empty tarball ? ... of a certain type, yes, unfortunately. Fortunately

Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

2008-07-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 18 15:28, Bill Hoffman wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Download a 1.7 distro using http://cygwin.com/setup-1.7.exe Cygwin 1.7 and 1.5 can run in parallel sessions on the same machine, but the installation in parallel needs some manual intervention. Setup.exe is not yet using the new

Cygwin 1.7.0-19 (was Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2)

2008-07-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 17 17:55, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi, again I would like to encourage the Cygwin maintainers, to try the new Cygwin 1.7.0 release and to look for problems in their packages which might be a result of the fairly massive changes in Cygwin 1.7. I attached a list of the changes below.

Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

2008-07-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 17 18:18, Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 7/17/2008 9:55 AM: | Hi, | | again I would like to encourage the Cygwin maintainers, to try the new | Cygwin 1.7.0 release and to look for problems in their packages which |

Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

2008-07-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 18 09:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 17 18:18, Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 7/17/2008 9:55 AM: | Hi, | | again I would like to encourage the Cygwin maintainers, to try the new | Cygwin 1.7.0 release and

Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

2008-07-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 18 09:54, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 18 09:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 17 18:18, Eric Blake wrote: Somewhere between setting obcaseinsensitive to 0 yesterday and upgrading to the new cygwin1.dll today, I'm now suffering from an inability to modify files on a shared

Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

2008-07-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 18 10:09, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 18 09:54, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 18 09:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 17 18:18, Eric Blake wrote: Somewhere between setting obcaseinsensitive to 0 yesterday and upgrading to the new cygwin1.dll today, I'm now suffering from

Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

2008-07-18 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Corinna Vinschen ha scritto: Hi, Hi Corinna, Download a 1.7 distro using http://cygwin.com/setup-1.7.exe Is it still unable to handle empty tarball ? Bye Marco Posta, news, sport, oroscopo: tutto in una sola pagina. Crea l#39;home page che piace a te!

Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

2008-07-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 18 18:36, Marco Atzeri wrote: --- Corinna Vinschen ha scritto: Download a 1.7 distro using http://cygwin.com/setup-1.7.exe Is it still unable to handle empty tarball ? ... of a certain type, yes, unfortunately. Fortunately it doesn't stop the whole setup process, it just prints

Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

2008-07-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 07:10:10PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 18 18:36, Marco Atzeri wrote: --- Corinna Vinschen ha scritto: Download a 1.7 distro using http://cygwin.com/setup-1.7.exe Is it still unable to handle empty tarball ? ... of a certain type, yes, unfortunately.

Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

2008-07-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 18 13:56, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 07:10:10PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 18 18:36, Marco Atzeri wrote: Is it still unable to handle empty tarball ? ... of a certain type, yes, unfortunately. Fortunately it doesn't stop the whole setup process, it

Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

2008-07-18 Thread Bill Hoffman
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Download a 1.7 distro using http://cygwin.com/setup-1.7.exe Cygwin 1.7 and 1.5 can run in parallel sessions on the same machine, but the installation in parallel needs some manual intervention. Setup.exe is not yet using the new registry location and will happily

Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

2008-07-18 Thread Brian Dessent
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Actually I don't think it can handle any type of empty tarball can it? I don't know. I thought it handles one type and complains about the other. I didn't actually test it. It can handle the type created by bzip2 /dev/null but not the tar -T /dev/null type. I

New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

2008-07-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi, again I would like to encourage the Cygwin maintainers, to try the new Cygwin 1.7.0 release and to look for problems in their packages which might be a result of the fairly massive changes in Cygwin 1.7. I attached a list of the changes below. The latest changes are: - Changes in

Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

2008-07-17 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 7/17/2008 9:55 AM: | Hi, | | again I would like to encourage the Cygwin maintainers, to try the new | Cygwin 1.7.0 release and to look for problems in their packages which | might be a result of the fairly massive