From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28539 invoked by alias); 1 Nov 2006 22:30:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 28531 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Nov 2006 22:30:48 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from pool-71-248-179-54.bstnma.fios.verizon.net (HELO cgf.cx) (71.248.179.54) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 22:30:47 +0000 Received: by cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 55F1613D48E; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 17:30:45 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 22:30:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List Subject: Re: How do I roll back to make 3.80 ? Message-ID: <20061101223045.GE5626@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List References: <8540148a0610311535t46b1146fk4959f209a6b56a54@mail.gmail.com> <4548A71F.6070909@gmail.com> <4548A805.3070009@byu.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4548A805.3070009@byu.net> 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-q4/txt/msg00077.txt.bz2 On Wed, Nov 01, 20.06 at 06:58:29AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: >According to Bill Hoffman on 11/1/2006 6:54 AM: >> So, make 3.8.2 should have the patch. > >Please, cgf, whatever you do, DON'T revert all the way back to make >3.8.x - - that is just way too old for my liking :) Or more generally, >why do people have the habit of mistyping version numbers when >composing emails? (although I'm probably guilty of that myself, at >times) Adding or deleting dots seems to be time-honored version-reporting tradition in the cygwin lists. There is also the use some-random-number-that-I-noticed-on-my-screen method which seems to be equally popular. Btw, just to add to the POSIX fun, Corinna is thinking about making the output of readlink() always report a POSIX path. Get ready for the shrieks of indignation now. You heard it here first. cgf