From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19932 invoked by alias); 23 Jul 2008 17:26:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 19921 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Jul 2008 17:26:15 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from yx-out-1718.google.com (HELO yx-out-1718.google.com) (74.125.44.155) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:25:51 +0000 Received: by yx-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 4so407497yxp.38 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:25:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.95.5 with SMTP id s5mr447691ybb.246.1216833949255; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:25:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.101? ( [24.76.249.6]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j13sm7094044rne.4.2008.07.23.10.25.47 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:25:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <48876999.3050208@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:26:00 -0000 From: "Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2 References: <20080717155516.GC5675@calimero.vinschen.de> <48851EE2.9030202@users.sourceforge.net> <20080722093225.GA15895@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20080722093225.GA15895@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 2008-07/txt/msg00109.txt.bz2 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Corinna Vinschen wrote: | When 1.7 goes gold, the idea is to install over an 1.5 install. Or not. | It's the choice of the user. Installing over 1.5 is supported by the | base-cygwin package, which is supposed to convert the registry mount | points to /etc/fstab mount points. OTOH, a 1.7 install can coexist with | a 1.5 install on the same machine. The advantage of "starting fresh" with 1.7 would allow us to dump a lot of obsolete packages from the distro (both old versions of libs, and empty packages created for the purpose of smooth upgrades), and make some more changes leading up to 1.7 without creating more. It would mean some things would have to be rebuilt (e.g. diff requires libintl2), but IMHO everything should anyways be rebuilt for 1.7. OTOH I'm not sure what the user reaction would be. I suppose one compromise would be to require users to "rm -fr /etc/setup" before upgrading to 1.7. | There's no roadmap. What's missing for a release is | | - A new setup.exe | | - The Cygwin utils are not quite up to speed | | - Documentation changes | | - Support by the package maintainers | | - Testing | | All of the above items could need a helping hand. If 1.7 isn't too | buggy, I plan to release 1.7 still in 2008. When that actually happens | doesn't depend on me. Cygwin 1.7 development has gone on for two years | and it comes with a lot of changes. Not all of them allow a 100% smooth | transition. | Eventually this release depends on the support it gets from all of you. I for one would like to "catch up" the distro to what I've made available in Ports. Could someone point me again to the current directions to install 1.7 in parallel to 1.5 on the same machine? Yaakov -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEAREIAAYFAkiHaZgACgkQpiWmPGlmQSO7jQCfXURX9AXZ5UaioPocdpte0W8o KokAniwdo2yASqmyM8JO+BMa5hIST7Jt =DgWy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----