Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

["Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)" <yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net>]

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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
| again I would like to encourage the Cygwin maintainers, to try the new
| Cygwin 1.7.0 release and to look for problems in their packages which
| might be a result of the fairly massive changes in Cygwin 1.7.  I
| attached a list of the changes below.  The latest changes are:

I've considered making the switch, as the new features in 1.7 (namely
IPv6 and wchar functions) would make porting *much* easier.  It might
also provide the chance to finally close the gap between Ports and the
distro, and generally improve our packaging scheme at the same time.

OTOH I don't have only myself to think about; with all my packages, I
doubt that I'll be able to support 1.5 any more after I switch.

It would help if I could get some clarification on:

*) When 1.7 goes gold (and I don't mean binutils!), is the recommended
upgrade path going to be in the same (Windows) tree, or to start fresh
in a new directory?

*) Is gcc-4.3 in the near future for 1.7?  Will gcc define
_GLIBCXX_USE_WCHAR_T?  Will it provide shared libgcc, libstdc++, etc?

*) Is there a roadmap of what needs to be done for 1.7?  I know you
don't want to provide a date, but some focus and perspective would be
helpful.


Yaakov

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