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From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [[PATCH setup] 0/3] Prepare for colons in version numbers
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 15:55:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dc25313f-8844-8a02-bb3f-b14915961e00@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171027184723.9324-1-kbrown@cornell.edu>

On 27/10/2017 19:47, Ken Brown wrote:
> A future version of setup might allow version numbers of the form
> e:v-r, where is an epoch.  Currently setup doesn't parse these
> correctly when reading installed.db.  In case ScanFindVisitor is used,
> there is an additional problem in reading filenames containing colons.
> The reading is done by Win32 functions, and the illegal characters
> like ':' aren't translated.
> 
> Ken Brown (3):
>    Remove the function filemanip.cc:base
>    Bump the installed.db version to 4
>    Remove the ScanFindVisitor class

Great, thanks.

I'll hold 2/3 back a bit, as bumping the installed.db version makes it a 
pain to go back to the released setup version after testing...

      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-10-30 15:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-27 18:47 Ken Brown
2017-10-27 18:47 ` [[PATCH setup] 1/3] Remove the function filemanip.cc:base Ken Brown
2017-10-27 18:47 ` [[PATCH setup] 2/3] Bump the installed.db version to 4 Ken Brown
2017-10-27 18:47 ` [[PATCH setup] 3/3] Remove the ScanFindVisitor class Ken Brown
2017-10-27 19:27 ` [[PATCH setup] 0/3] Prepare for colons in version numbers Achim Gratz
2017-10-27 19:33   ` Ken Brown
2017-10-27 19:48   ` Brian Inglis
2017-10-27 20:31   ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2017-10-30 15:58   ` Jon Turney
2017-10-31 10:06     ` Achim Gratz
2017-10-31 11:21       ` Corinna Vinschen
2017-10-31 16:22         ` Brian Inglis
2017-10-31 18:16         ` Achim Gratz
2017-10-31 18:32           ` Brian Inglis
2017-10-30 15:55 ` Jon Turney [this message]

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