Re: Updated: 1.7.0-34 (...and a plea)

[Charles Wilson <cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm>]

Chris Sutcliffe wrote:

> For the packages I maintain (w32api, mingw-runtime, hexedit, astyle) I
> didn't think there would be much of an impact between 1.5 and 1.7.  If
> there is some benefit, please let me know and I will build 1.7
> versions of these packages.  Is there a naming convention or something
> I should use, since I assume using the same name / version as the 1.5
> binaries may cause a problem?

Corinna has been using a paired approach for openssh (e.g. simultaneous
releases of -5 for cygwin-1.5 and -6 for cygwin-1.7, followed by -7/-8,
etc.)

For autotools, I "jumped" to the next multiple of 10 for the new -1.7
series of releases, reserving (e.g.) -3 to -9 for any future updates to
the packages for -1.5. However, in those particular cases I do NOT
expect any additional releases for -1.5 anyway, so -3 to -9 most likely
will be forever "empty".

But yeah, using the same release number for different -1.5 and -1.7
packages is just asking for trouble.

--
Chuck