From: cgf AT bbc DOT com (Christopher Faylor) Subject: Re: Outstanding problems in B19? 3 Feb 1998 18:00:04 -0800 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com To: cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com In article <199802032306 DOT PAA01669 AT rtl DOT cygnus DOT com>, Geoffrey Noer wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >> It looks like B19 will probably be released with some outstanding problems. >> Possibly these are not issues to Cygnus customers but many of them crop >> up once a day on the mailing list. > >Very true. But b18 is too old. At this point, I'd like to get b19 >out the door and then try to get these things dealt with in b20. >b20 will also include egcs as the compiler of choice. (Once b19 is >out, it will also be easier to try to get the Net community to be >involved in fixing some of them). Sounds like a good plan. >> 8) Is ash or bash going to be distributed as /bin/sh? > >Now that bash is no longer SEGVing, b19 will just include bash as sh. >The version you gave me has some POSIX.2 compatibility problems and I >haven't had time to finish porting the newest NetBSD one yet. :-( Is /bin/sh going to be bash configured with '--enable-minimal-config' or will it just be regular bash? Btw, the fix for the SEGVing should have affected a lot of stuff besides bash. Anything that received a signal could have been affected and it should have been a problem for stock B18 too (i.e. "I didn't do it!"). >> 9) Will less and/or man be distributed? That's another hot button. > >No. *sigh* > >> 10) Will inetd, telnetd, et. al. be available somewhere? > >I'm hoping Sergey will be able to update the package he's made >available for Coolview. Would it be possible for Cygnus to have an "unsupported" directory with some of this stuff in it? I wish I had the bandwidth to provide it myself. I know that somebody on the mailing list is sort of maintaining an ftp site but he's said that he doesn't really have the time. Since everything will need to be recompiled it "would be nice" to already have some tools available like less, perl, vim, man, etc. for people to use immediately. -- http://www.bbc.com/ cgf AT bbc DOT com "Strange how unreal VMS=>UNIX Solutions Boston Business Computing the real can be."