From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27908 invoked by alias); 3 Jul 2006 15:14:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 27887 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Jul 2006 15:14:22 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from fios.cgf.cx (HELO cgf.cx) (71.248.179.97) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 15:14:20 +0000 Received: by cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 0EEF213C01F; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 11:14:19 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 15:14:00 -0000 From: "Ed C. Lueless" To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List Subject: Re: Updated: cygwin-1.5.20-1 Message-ID: <20060703151418.GB28660@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List References: <20060702161616.GA10851@coe.casa.cgf.cx> <31DDB7BE4BF41D4888D41709C476B65704168C2B@NIHCESMLBX5.nih.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <31DDB7BE4BF41D4888D41709C476B65704168C2B@NIHCESMLBX5.nih.gov> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List X-SW-Source: 2006-q3/txt/msg00002.txt.bz2 On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 09:22:27AM -0400, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> I've made a new version of the Cygwin DLL and associated utilities >> available for download. As usual, a list of what has changed is >> below. > >[snip] > >It's been over 6 hours since the last update. When do you expect to >have the next? Good point. It seems to me that if cygwin wants to survive and be popular, we really need to use a continuous update model, just like Linux and Solaris. I'm not actually familiar with either of those two things but I do like to make analogies whereever possible. I'm fairly certain that both of those OS's probably do releases on an hourly basis. This is of great benefit to the users because they have a *CHOICE* and, if a problem is fixed, a user can benefit immediately. With Cygwin, we sometimes have to wait YEARS for an update which fixes a problem. I don't see how that benefits anyone. Wouldn't you think that the developers would want their fixes actually used and tested? And, yes, I know about snapshots. I don't use them because they're unstable and require manual steps to install. I did try a snapshot last year, and had to spend the rest of the day recovering from it! Btw, I used to use a system which released on a 15-minute basis but I don't expect anyone to go to those lengths. This is OSS after all! I know that it is all volunteer! -- Ed C. Lueless Computer Geru/Master Programmer "There's no such thing as evil. Just excuses that heaven won't accept." -- Peter David "Ed C. - you are the man!" -- my boss