Re: PROPOSAL: removing src/expect

Joe Buck
2004-06-16T16:30:03Z

On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 04:08:27AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Jun 16, 2004, Ben Elliston <bje+dated+1087798498.8ed310@air.net.au> wrote:
>
> > I meant who is going to keep src/expect up to date? The version
> > that's there has not been touched since the initial sourceware import
> > in November 1999.
>
> Do we have evidence that it's broken? If so, we do need an update.
> If not, why can't we just leave it at the working state?

Yes, last I checked it resulted in failures on Solaris that I don't see
with version 5.40.0 (that is, when I switched from the infrastructure
version of expect to the official one, I suddenly no longer saw lots
of Java failures for Solaris).