Re: Next Release Status

On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 11:14:38PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
>Am 08.11.2011 18:50, schrieb Keith Seitz:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Given some demand, I am planning on doing an official release of Insight
>> sometime just after the GDB 7.4 release (process starting soon).
>> 
>> My primary goals for this release (largely just an update/bugfixes) are
>> that it build/work on Linux (my platform), MinGW, and Cygwin.
>> 
>> I spent some time this weekend rummaging around the sources attempting
>> to get this stuff working. Here's a little status report on my progress.
>> 
>> Linux: builds and runs okay. Found a memory corruption bug in the
>> register window (affects all hosts). Needs to be fixed before release.
>> 
>> MinGW: Had patches lying around to get build working, but I forgot. So I
>> re-invented the wheel. No big deal. I will check these in. There is,
>> however, a startup problem with libgui on this platform. It complains
>> about being unable to find pkgIndex.tcl. Hopefully, not too painful to fix.
>> 
>> Cygwin: This is the nightmare. Tcl et al are completely broken. Instead
>> of using my ancient Windows 2000 box, I have installed a VM on my linux
>> box and put a modern Windows installation in there. Now I see all the
>> problems that people have reported throughout the years that I could
>> never reproduce! Example: conflicts with winsock & Cygwin's posix layer.
>> Ouch. Currently, this is the only platform for which I do not have a
>> working build.
>
>That's been the status quo ever since Cygwin 1.7.0 got released.

Actually, I've been able to build this without much effort.  I just
don't like the current state of affairs wrt cygwin tcl/tk and insight so
I haven't been motivated to make a release.

>> I hope over the next few weeks, leading up to the GDB 7.4 release, to
>> get these problems resolved. If you'd like to help (especially with
>> Cygwin!), please let me know.
>> 
>> If anyone has any other peeves or important bugs, please also let me
>> know, and I will try to address them before this next release.
>
>My idea is to contact the Cygwin mailing list (which is read by the
>maintainers).  Tell them your plans and ask for help with Tcl/Tk.  I
>suppose you'll hear "sorry, no maintainer" though.  And tell them that
>you need Tcl/Tk with POSIX-style networking.

There's no need to do this.  The maintainer reads this list.

cgf