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Re: tcl/tk/expect/dejagnu/gdb/insight [Was: Re: [PATCH] Define _TIMEVAL_DEFINED consistently whenever defining timeval.]
- From: Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:07:59 +0100
- Subject: Re: tcl/tk/expect/dejagnu/gdb/insight [Was: Re: [PATCH] Define _TIMEVAL_DEFINED consistently whenever defining timeval.]
- References: <4AADAF9C.2000601@gmail.com> <4AAECE49.9040603@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <4AB16167.6070301@users.sourceforge.net>
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>> which, honestly, isn't very much. I'd be concerned about all those
>> tcl-db${old_version} packages -- but it looks like there are no
>> in-distro users of them. That leaves gdb, ruby, python, git, and parrot
>> -- all of which have active maintainers. Plus suite3270 and brltty,
>> which I'm not sure about.
>
> I see no plausible way to transition other than a simultaneous release
> of all these packages.
Could we conceivably do coexistence by bringing in the new properly
cygwinized versions at version 8.5 and keep the current 8.4 DLLs and
/usr/share files around for backward compat?
cheers,
DaveK
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