From: Steven Penny <svnpenn@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin-3 and the Bleeding Edge
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2019 13:11:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5c7d240c.1c69fb81.fdbe4.f90f@mx.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <152XcDme12976Set.1551701152@web13.cms.usa.net>
On Mon, 04 Mar 2019 06:05:52, "KARL BOTTS" wrote:
> But now and then I need to upgrade a specific package outside of my full
> cygwin update cycle. E.g., right now I would like to upgrade just git.
>
> So: Assume for the moment that the latest git package release on the mirrors,
> has been built against cygwin-3 base. Am I reasonably safe to assume it will
> still work with cygwin-2.11.2? Does this generalize to all, or at least most,
> other packages?
that is not the best example as the current Cygwin Git is version
2.17.0 (Apr 2018) and 4 minor versions have dropped since then:
- 2.18.0
- 2.19.0
- 2.20.0
- 2.21.0
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-04 13:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-04 12:06 KARL BOTTS
2019-03-04 13:11 ` Steven Penny [this message]
2019-03-05 16:29 ` Ken Brown
2019-03-05 19:09 ` Achim Gratz
2019-03-06 0:11 KARL BOTTS
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