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2003-01-28Add a Makefile.common to tcl-expect and use it to keep tk-expect in sync.markd2-11/+21
Fixes PR 20055 from Robert Elz. Updates tk-expect to version 5.38. Also remove the pre-configure step from tk-expect that was removed from tcl-expect a year ago. Also use the standard test target rather than an explict one.
2003-01-10Update from 5.33 to 5.38.mycroft3-15/+17
7/18/02 5.38.0 At request of Hugh Sasse <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> added md5 hash of gz to homepage. Dave Schooler <dave@stashtea.com> reported that send -s wasn't handling certains chars correctly. Turned out to be those that had multibyte UTF8 reps. send -s was just pumping out hunks of bytes without regard to UTF boundaries and evidentally Tcl's I/O engine thought that it should translate a partial UTF8 character into, uh, something else. Curt Shroeder <c.schroeder@computer.org> fixed bug in rftp - a a filename looked enough like a 3-digit diagnostic that the script got confused. 4/16/02 5.37.2 Multixterm couldn't find man page all the time. 4/16/02 5.37.1 Made multixterm handle user-supplied args. 4/15/02 5.37.0 Added multixterm to example directory. 4/8/02 5.36.1 Backed out CONST qualifiers. Too much trouble with older versions of Tcl. I'll let someone else worry about them. 4/8/02 5.36.0 Made first cut at multixterm, a replacement for crlogin. Fixed bug in background handler. If an action waited on the same spawn id, esPtr would become invalidated. Ryan Schmidt <rschmidt@mac.com> noted configure didn't recognize MacOS X. Downloaded new config.guess. Andreas Kupries <andreask@activestate.com> provided CONST patches to accomodate Tcl changes per TIP 27. 2/25/02 5.35.0 Joe Eggleston <joe@arbor.net> noted bug in full_buffer test. The test hadn't been I18'd properly and was testing chars instead of bytes. Also fixed diagnostics so it printed when it was testing full buffer even if there wasn't one. 2/7/02 5.34.1 Bruce Hartweg <brhartweg@bigfoot.com> noted that direct spawn ids were not being tested so something like "expect -i exp9999" would dump core. Evidentally a bug from the 5.31 transition. 12/20/01 5.34.0 Don Porter <don.porter@nist.gov> provided package-related fixes for test suite. Brian Theado <brian.theado@usa.net> noted that interact's -re support broke when offsets kicked in. Turned out that the regexp engine supports them during execution but the results are delivered RELATIVE to the offset. (I suspect this was done due to expediency.)
2002-12-09Replace "true" by "${TRUE}".tron1-3/+3
2002-02-15mkdir -> ${MKDIR}skrll1-3/+3
rmdir -> ${RMDIR} rm -> ${RM} (${RM} added to PLIST_SUBST) chmod -> ${CHMOD} chown -> ${CHOWN}
2002-01-03Add two unexec rmdirs.wiz1-1/+3
2002-01-03Remove badly written up-to-date check for configure that clashes with ourwiz3-7/+29
current touch procedure in bsd.pkg.mk.
2001-11-01Move pkg/ files into package's toplevel directoryzuntum2-1/+1
2001-10-25a.) use version-numbered tarball, which is now available. Pointed out byjwise2-10/+8
David Maxwell (david@netbsd.org) b.) correct version number. The preferred form is 5.33.0 (not 5.33)...
2001-10-24Update the tcl-expect packages to be based on expect-5.33.jwise3-15/+15
Changes from 5.32.1 (the last pkgsrc version): 10/1/01 5.33.0 <mark@doradosoftware.com> found that expect's diagnostics didn't include the "no" after testing for a full buffer. Hemang Lavana <hlavana@cisco.com> noted that "debug" (Dbg_On) calls didn't always force the debugger into step mode. Martin Kammerhofer <dada@sbox.tugraz.at> noted that the man page neglected to document interpreter -eof. Chris Clare <clarec@nortelnetworks.com> provided fix for multiple decl in C lib. Sheng Wang <wangs@sh.bel.alcatel.be> found interact's can-match code had broken. It was missing the special hook that Henry had added just for this purpose. How strange. Dieter Fiebelkorn <dieter@fiebelkorn.net> requested addition to config.guess for Power*Macintosh:Darwin for MacOSX. Aside - to download latest config.guess: cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvs checkout \ config Added pipeline example to unbuffer man page. 8/4/00 5.32.2 Allen J. Newton <anewton@alturia.fleet.org> provided code for generating passwords with special characters in mkpasswd. Brent Welch <welch@ajubasolutions.com> changed the fix1line install script so that "autoexpect" and other scripts that get installed into the platform-independent bin directory generically invoke "expect" from the users PATH instead of hardwiring the platform-specific expect pathname.
2001-09-27Mechanical changes to 375 files to change dependency patterns of the formjlam1-2/+2
foo-* to foo-[0-9]*. This is to cause the dependencies to match only the packages whose base package name is "foo", and not those named "foo-bar". A concrete example is p5-Net-* matching p5-Net-DNS as well as p5-Net. Also change dependency examples in Packages.txt to reflect this.
2001-05-16fix unaligned access on alpha by applying patch from PR 12905.dillo2-1/+15
2001-04-19Move to sha1 digests, and add distfile sizes.agc1-2/+3
2001-04-17+ move the distfile digest/checksum value from files/md5 to distinfoagc3-7/+5
+ move the patch digest/checksum values from files/patch-sum to distinfo
2001-02-17Move the COMMENT from being in its own file to a definition in theagc2-2/+2
package Makefile.
2001-01-24Depend on tcl>=8.3.2 instead of tcl-8.3.2 now that PKGNAME of tclhe1-2/+2
is bumped to tcl-8.3.2nb1.
2001-01-04The way that shared objects were handled in the PLISTs and bsd.pkg.mk wasagc1-1/+3
out of date - it was based on a.out OBJECT_FMT, and added entries in the generated PLISTs to reflect the symlinks that ELF packages uses. It also tried to be clever, and removed and recreated any symbolic links that were created, which has resulted in some fun, especially with packages which use dlopen(3) to load modules. Some recent changes to our ld.so to bring it more into line with other Operating Systems also exposed some cracks. + Modify bsd.pkg.mk and its shared object handling, so that PLISTs now contain the ELF symlinks. + Don't mess about with file system entries when handling shared objects in bsd.pkg.mk, since it's likely that libtool and the BSD *.mk processing will have got it right, and have a much better idea than we do. + Modify PLISTs to contain "ELF symlinks" + On a.out platforms, delete any "ELF symlinks" from the generated PLISTs + On ELF platforms, no extra processing needs to be done in bsd.pkg.mk + Modify print-PLIST target in bsd.pkg.mk to add dummy symlink entries on a.out platforms + Update the documentation in Packages.txt With many thanks to Thomas Klausner for keeping me honest with this.
2000-10-01Fix datestamp problem by touching of configure script prior torh1-1/+4
configuration.
2000-09-06Make this CONFLICT with the old expect package.jwise1-1/+3
2000-09-05Remove a comented out bit which is not needed at all.jwise1-4/+1
2000-09-05Initial import of tcl-expect-5.32.1, the tcl half of the new expect packages.jwise8-0/+269
Changes to the expect package since expect-5.25: * This package is now split into two packages, tcl-expect, and tk-expect. tcl-expect can be installed on systems without X11 (and by extension, without tk). * the copious expect examples and their man pages are now installed into ${PREFIX}/share/examples/tcl/expect instead of into ${PREFIX}/bin and ${PREFIX}/man. If any of them are determined to be worth separate use, they should be split out into a separate package. Changes to expect itself since expect-5.25: ** SUMMARY Expect 5.31 now works with Tcl 8.2. Expect 5.31 does NOT work with prior releases of Tcl. Thanks to an incredible amount of work by Scott Stanton, Henry Spencer, Melissa Hirschl, and funding from Scriptics for making this possible. ** NEW FEATURES What? You mean that working with Tcl 8.2 isn't enough????? Expect supports Tcl's new regexp engine. Expect supports null bytes in strings directly. (You no longer have to use the "null" keyword to send or match nulls. Of course, the "null" keyword will continue to be supported.) Null removal (on input) is still enabled by default since nulls are almost never intended for end-user consumption in interactive dialogues. ** CHANGES IN BEHAVIOR (POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITIES) The interpreter command used to exit upon eof. Now it uses "-eof script" to control this behavior. The default behavior is to return. (This change was required because Expect now gives control to Tcl upon exit and Tcl waits (potentially forever) for all processes to die on exit.) Explicit calls to interpreter are almost non-existent. However, you should look for *implicit* calls via interact commands with a pattern but no action. This required changes in the examples: dislocate, dvorak, kibitz, and xkibitz. Indirect variables can no longer start with "exp". Such variables will be interpreted as channel names. Old-style regexps may need conversion. If you have been protecting regexps containing backslashes with {}, then you need to examine all your backslashes since the new regexp engine interprets backslash sequences (such as \n) itself. For example: expect "\n" (works the same in Tcl 8.0 and 8.1) expect {\n} (works differently in Tcl 8.0 and 8.1) Scriptics has also created a new-regexp-features page which you should read: http://www.scriptics.com/support/howto/regexp81.html. Some of the new features allow much more efficient regexps than before. For example, non-greedy quantifiers can replace [split] looping constructions with a single regexp, enabling Tcl to parse very efficiently. For the whole story, read the re_syntax man page. The interact command's regexp matching no longer skips nulls. (I'd be surprised if anyone misses this. At least I hope ....) Expect's C library now reports failures in spawn's underlying exec directly (by returning -1) rather than the way it used to (as data in the pty). This makes user code more robust. However, it requires you to simplify your code, alas. See the chesslib.c example. Linking with Expect's C library no longer requires the Tcl library (unless, of course, you make Tcl calls yourself). Tcl is still required to build the library in the first place, however. ** CHANGES IN BEHAVIOR (SHOULD NOT CAUSE INCOMPATIBILITIES) The match_max command now controls by bytes, not chars. This won't cause problems unless your existing scripts are interacting using sizeable chunks of multibyte characters. (If you don't know what I'm talking about, ignore this.) The Make/configure suite now corresponds to the TEA conventions (at least in theory; the conventions are changing regularly so it's hard to be less vague on this point). Significantly, this means that you should be able to use the same configure flags as when compiling Tcl or any other TEA-compatible extension. (See the INSTALL file.) The values of special variables such as exp_spawn_id_any have changed. (The values were never documented so you shouldn't have been using them anyway.) Spawn ids now appear as "exp...". (They used to be small integers.) Do not assume that spawn ids will continue to be represented in any particular way (other than unique strings). ** OTHER NOTES Expect uses channels. There is an Expect channel type. It is possible to use Tcl's channel commands, such as fconfigure, to change the encoding. However, Expect layers its own buffering system on top of Tcl's channel handler so don't expect intuitive behavior when using commands such as gets and puts. Unless you know what you're doing, I recommend manipulating the Expect channels only with the expect commands. Some effort was made to make Expect support threads, however it is not complete. You can compile Expect with threads enabled but don't run Expect in multiple threads just yet. So much code has changed, there are bound to be bugs in dark corners. Please let me know of such cases. The best response will come by supplying a simple test case that can be added to Expect's test suite. In places where the behavior of Expect was not precisely documented, full advantage was taken to do something different :-) Several esoteric bugs were fixed. Although Expect itself uses Henry Spencer's new regexp engine, Expect's C library still uses his original regexp engine. No testing has been done of the poll and non-event subsystems. (These are used on systems which don't support select on ptys or ttys. Some minor work needs to be done on them (because the event subsystem was rewritten) which I'll probably do only if anyone requests it. Many deprecated features (deprecated for many years!) have been removed. All such features were deprecated prior to Exploring Expect so if that's how you learned Expect, you have nothing to worry about. For example, Expect's getpid command predates Tcl's pid command and it's been deprecated for, oh.... 6 years - wow! Other deprecated features include: expect -timestamp (flag only; behavior itself was removed years ago) expect -iwrite (flag only; behavior occurs all the time) expect_version (use "exp_version" command) expect_library (use "exp_library" global variable) interact -eof (use "eof" keyword) interact -timeout (use "timeout" keyword) interact -timestamp (use "clock" command) getpid (use "pid" command) system stty (use "stty" command) With this release, the following are deprecated: timestamp (use "clock" command) debugger (use a different one; there are very nice replacements around. Fortunately the Expect debugger is not something anyone is wiring into their scripts, so for now, consider it on the endangered species list. Anyone still want this debugger?) From now on, the most current snapshots of Expect will be found in the Scriptics CVS repository. Not all snapshots are official releases. For more, see the ChangeLog file in the expect distribution.