Expect

Hi, I'm the maintainer of the expect package in OpenMandriva. While I don't have the time to take over maintainership of expect properly, I would certainly volunteer to get an expect 5.46 release out of the door that essentially does what we have in our package already: Tcl 9.0 support, support for newer compilers (without needing -fpermissive), and a few assorted bugfixes.

Expect package is not thread safe

Anyone interested in maintainership is most welcome to take over. I'm unfortunately not a daily expect user for many years now and not dependent on it, so I'm really not suitable. Also my family has expanded since I took over and little free time is spent on programming these days!

This is fixed in the contributed 5.45.4.1 version linked from the Tcl 9.0 porting page at https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Porting+extensions+to+Tcl+9 -- which also works with Tcl 9.0.

FYI: the released version 5.45.4 of Expect does not work with the newly-released Tcl 9.0. There is a contributed port mentioned on the 9.0 porting page (https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Porting+extensions+to+Tcl+9), which as of 2024-12 can be obtained from https://www.tcl3d.org/bawt/download/InputLibs/expect-5.45.4.1.7z The porting page says that it doesn't work with GCC 14.x, but if you configure it with CFLAGS including -fpermissive, it does.