From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17947 invoked by alias); 9 Apr 2008 16:02:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 17936 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Apr 2008 16:02:35 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:02:18 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 82A5F6D4312; Wed, 9 Apr 2008 18:02:15 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:02:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] Let's start a Cygwin 1.7 release area Message-ID: <20080409160215.GI23852@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: <1207753470.10517.1246955047@webmail.messagingengine.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1207753470.10517.1246955047@webmail.messagingengine.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2008-04/txt/msg00118.txt.bz2 On Apr 9 11:04, Charles Wilson wrote: > On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 10:31:39 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 06:09:46AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: > >>Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>>My favorite would be release-2. It has nothing to do with the DLL > >> > >>Sounds fine to me as well. > > > >It's ok. > > Works for me. > > One question: the old plan was, as outlined by Brian, that we would > eventually have: > > release_legacy <<-- renamed from existing 'release' directory > release <<-- new 1.7 stuff, once it is "gold". > (and somewhere we would have a temp release-1.7/-2008/whatever thing, > which would get renamed to 'release') > > Is the new plan: > > release <<-- stays exactly as is, forever and ever. (OK, maybe some > pkg updates...) > release-2 <<-- "temp" with custom setup.exe during development, but > eventually becomes "actual" when > (a) we decide that 1.7 and associated pkgs are ready to go > (b) and we release a "new" setup.exe with the special "are you > Win9x"-->release (NOT release_legacy), else -->release-2 > > That is, no directory renaming at all (which would make the mirrors > happy) -- we "activate" by releasing a new setup? Yes! :) Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat