[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] New documentation available

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] New documentation available

[Corinna Vinschen]

I made all of the latest version of the Cygwin 1.7 documentation
available on cygwin.com.  It consists of three parts:

- The User's Guide.  It should be fairly complete now.
  
  For online reading:
  http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html

  To fetch a local copy as one single, gzipped html file:
  http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net-nochunks.html.gz

- The API reference.  It now refers to SUSv4 in the first place.
  Hopefully not quite complete.  We're still hoping to get at least the
  wprintf and wscanf familiy of functions into Cygwin before the first
  official release.
  http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-api/cygwin-api.html

- The new FAQ.  Basically only really old cruft or references to Windows
  95/98/Me problems have been ripped out.  A couple of Q&As have been
  rephrased to reflect toe changes in 1.7.  And some Q&As are still
  waiting for a revamp.  Anyway, it's a start, right?
  http://cygwin.com/1.7/faq/faq.html

The sources of the docs are in CVS in the winsup/doc directory.  For
those not comfortable with the CVS command line interface there's also
a web interface here:
http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/doc/?cvsroot=src

Bugfixes and enhancements in the form of patches (diff -u) are welcome.


Have fun,
Corinna

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Re: [1.7] New documentation available

[Tim McDaniel]

On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> - The User's Guide.  It should be fairly complete now.
>  http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html
>
> - The API reference. ...
>  http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-api/cygwin-api.html
>
> - The new FAQ.  ...
>  http://cygwin.com/1.7/faq/faq.html

Many thanks.

Will there be a release-notes document giving some user-visible
changes from 1.5 to 1.7?  I think you listed them, plus notes on
internal restructuring, in the first 1.7 announcement on this list.

Is there anything to know about upgrading from 1.5 to 1.7?

Denyel de Lincoln
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Re: [1.7] New documentation available

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Feb 13 10:03, Tim McDaniel wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>> - The User's Guide.  It should be fairly complete now.
>>  http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html
>>
>> - The API reference. ...
>>  http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-api/cygwin-api.html
>>
>> - The new FAQ.  ...
>>  http://cygwin.com/1.7/faq/faq.html
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Will there be a release-notes document giving some user-visible
> changes from 1.5 to 1.7?  I think you listed them, plus notes on
> internal restructuring, in the first 1.7 announcement on this list.

Erm... I'm listing them with *every* new 1.7 announcement and I try to
keep it fresh with every change made.  But you're right, it might be a
good thing to add this to the official docs at one point.

> Is there anything to know about upgrading from 1.5 to 1.7?

Yes, it's pretty stable, but it's still a test release.  The really new
stuff from a pure user POV are all the changes to the path handling
(long paths, case sensitivity, /etc/fstab), the new methods for user
authentication and last but not least IPv6 support.

I suggest to read the new docs really carefully.  It's quite a bit of
change.


Corinna

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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] New documentation available

[Nahor]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Bugfixes and enhancements in the form of patches (diff -u) are welcome.

Not a patch but easy enough to find:

[A brief history of the Cygwin project]
"the 1.7 release in 2008"
=> 2009


Cheers,
	Nahor

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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] New documentation available

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Feb 13 10:15, Nahor wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> Bugfixes and enhancements in the form of patches (diff -u) are welcome.
>
> Not a patch but easy enough to find:
>
> [A brief history of the Cygwin project]
> "the 1.7 release in 2008"
> => 2009

Fixed.


Thanks,
Corinna

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