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From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: Warren Young <wyml@etr-usa.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 11:50:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <299230481.20141209143811@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6695DB56-B38C-4FC4-A58A-9CE8798DBAFB@etr-usa.com>

Greetings, Warren Young!

>> - Cygwin can now generate passwd/group entries directly from Windows

> This is huge, Corinna!

> It must have been a lot of work, and while I personally will not benefit
> much from this — don’t use AD here, and /etc/passwd suffices for my purposes
> — it’s one of those things that should obviously be done.

You'd be surprised to know, how much faster it works when you delete the
passwd. Especially if you start alot of Cygwin tools from native app, so they
don't benefit from parent caching.

> Congratulations on getting this into a shippable state.  I realize it isn’t
> formally released yet, but you’ve gotten it over the hump where it must be
> compiled out of release binaries.  I assume this is one of those situations
> where the last 10% of the work takes 90% of the time.

On this, I agree.


--
WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 09.12.2014, <14:36>

Sorry for my terrible english...

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-12-09 11:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-06 20:24 Corinna Vinschen
2014-12-07 15:59 ` Henry S. Thompson
2014-12-08 10:50   ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-12-08 22:15 ` Warren Young
2014-12-09 10:56   ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-12-09 22:06     ` Warren Young
2014-12-10 14:59       ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-12-09 11:50   ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2014-12-12 22:42 ` Thomas Wolff
2014-12-15 11:07   ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-12-07 11:21 Angelo Graziosi
2014-12-08 10:49 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-12-09 23:28 Angelo Graziosi
2014-12-10  4:36 ` Alexey Pavlov
2014-12-10 16:01   ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-12-11  4:37     ` Alexey Pavlov
2014-12-11 17:42       ` Warren Young
2014-12-11 18:20         ` Ray Donnelly
2014-12-10  9:48 ` JonY
2014-12-10 15:08   ` Corinna Vinschen

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