--- a/Admin/PLATFORMS Fri Oct 24 11:05:19 2014 +0200
+++ b/Admin/PLATFORMS Fri Oct 24 11:30:39 2014 +0200
@@ -93,10 +93,8 @@
shell /bin/sh is *not* appropriate, because there are too many
non-standard implementations of it.
-* Perl as largely portable system programming language. In some
- situations Python may serve as an alternative, but it usually
- performs not as well in addressing various delicate details of
- operating system concepts (processes, signals, sockets etc.).
+* Perl as largely portable system programming language, with its
+ fairly robust support for processes, signals, sockets etc.
* Scala with Java 1.7. Isabelle/Scala irons out many oddities and
portability issues of the Java platform.
--- a/Admin/components/components.sha1 Fri Oct 24 11:05:19 2014 +0200
+++ b/Admin/components/components.sha1 Fri Oct 24 11:30:39 2014 +0200
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
3dc680d9eb85276e8c3e9f6057dad0efe2d5aa41 cygwin-20140626.tar.gz
8e562dfe57a2f894f9461f4addedb88afa108152 cygwin-20140725.tar.gz
238d8e30e8e22495b7ea3f5ec36e852e97fe8bbf cygwin-20140813.tar.gz
+629b8fbe35952d1551cd2a7ff08db697f6dff870 cygwin-20141024.tar.gz
0fe549949a025d65d52d6deca30554de8fca3b6e e-1.5.tar.gz
2e293256a134eb8e5b1a283361b15eb812fbfbf1 e-1.6-1.tar.gz
e1919e72416cbd7ac8de5455caba8901acc7b44d e-1.6-2.tar.gz
--- a/Admin/lib/Tools/makedist_cygwin Fri Oct 24 11:05:19 2014 +0200
+++ b/Admin/lib/Tools/makedist_cygwin Fri Oct 24 11:30:39 2014 +0200
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
--site "$CYGWIN_MIRROR" --no-verify \
--local-package-dir 'C:\temp' \
--root "$(cygpath -w "$TARGET")" \
- --packages libgmp3,perl,perl_vendor,python,rlwrap,unzip,vim \
+ --packages libgmp3,perl,perl_vendor,rlwrap,unzip,vim \
--no-shortcuts --no-startmenu --no-desktop --quiet-mode
[ "$?" = 0 -a -e "$TARGET/etc" ] || exit 2