[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.1-9

[mwoehlke]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 04:28:13PM +0000, Eric Blake wrote:
>> mwoehlke writes:
>>> Eric Blake wrote:
>>>> Second, this release adds a new shopt, igncr, which dynamically
>>>> tells bash to ignore all \r in the input file when it is set; however, it
>>>> defaults to unset.
>>> So, I keep wanting to know if you are thinking about submitting this 
>>> upstream (or have you done so already?)...
>>>
>> I'm hoping to port the patches to the 3.2 beta before proposing them upstream 
>> (right now, my cygwin TODO list includes: get coreutils 6.3 stable ported to 
>> cygwin, get bash 3.2beta ported to cygwin as experimental, post bash patches 
>> upstream, update bash-completion to use cygport and add some long overdue 
>> promised completion functions for cygwin).  As written, my patch is 
>> conditionalized on __CYGWIN__, but when proposing it upstream, I will try to 
>> make it more generic.
> 
> I really appreciate all of the time, thought, and effort you're putting into
> this, Eric.  The Cygwin project is lucky to have you.

What CGF said. And good luck with coreutils; I'm currently trying to 
build it across /my/ platform list (except for Cygwin which I leave in 
your capable hands). OSS should be fun... :-)

-- 
Matthew
"I don't question your existence -- God" (seen on a church billboard)


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