[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: version 5.45 of expect/tcl

Larry W. Virden lvirden@gmail.com
Tue Oct 25 12:51:00 GMT 2011


Craig - it is good to see some work going on in cygwin relating to
tcl. I hope that expect-lite is incorporated; it would be nice to have
a version of tcl closer to the latest version released.

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Craig Miller <cvmiller@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am the author of expect-lite <expect-lite.sf.net> which relies heavily on
> expect. The version in the cygwin repository is quite old (from 2003). I
> have compiled a modern version of expect (v 5.45) based on TCL 8.5.

You may want to contact the cygwinports <
http://sourceware.org/cygwinports > to see if active support for a
current release should go there first.

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