Bash updates, bashdb, bash_completion, etc.

[Ronald Landheer-Cieslak]

Hello all,

Let me just start by saying that I really think bashdb would be a nice 
addition to Cygwin. That said, I'll need some convincing to add it to 
mainline Bash as I don't want to maintain YA out-of-tree patch for Bash if I 
can help it.

As for Bash-2.05b-17: I've applied Pierre's patch to bash-2.05b-16 and am 
compiling it now (I've got a coffee break I can use for that).

As for Bash-3: it doesn't currently get through the tests and I do not have 
the time at the moment to figure out why not. The reason for this is very 
simple: I don't have a Windows machine at home so all I have for testing is 
my lunch and coffee breaks. (This same lack of a Windows machine had a 
rather dramatic impact on the time I had allocated for the Cygwin project a 
while ago, when I was at home for nearly four consecutive months.. donations 
are welcome ;)

Reini, if you still intend to package bashdb and bash_completion, I'll be 
happy to work with you to integrate them into the bash package. However, as 
you have already stated that you don't want to maintain bash and I have 
already stated that I don't want to maintain bashdb or bash_completion, 
we'll have to find some solution to this or accept a stalemate. Please feel 
free to mail me privately about this.

rlc

PS: I've subscribed this (hotmail) address to cygwin-apps as I don't have 
E-mail at home either and the Gmane equivalent of this list doesn't allow 
posting. There's no need to copy to ronald@... or to this address..

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