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Re: Test packages, or lack thereof (was It's a snapshot)
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 23:09:23 -0400
- Subject: Re: Test packages, or lack thereof (was It's a snapshot)
- References: <20030822025258.GF25475@emcb.co.uk>
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On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 03:52:58AM +0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
>Christopher Faylor <cgf-idd@cygwin.com> wrote:
>>If there are no serious issues with this version then I will probably
>>flip the switch and make 1.5.3 the latest, current version of cygwin,
>>switching all of the test versions of packages to be current at that
>>time.
>
>What's the plan regarding packages that haven't gone into a 'test'
>phase? I haven't even started (well, I'm configuring now) mine.
>
>Just curious,
I don't know if I need to say this again for the 500th time or not but
just on the off chance that I do: There is no need to issue test
packages unless you need the functionality of 1.5.x or they are
exporting some of the new types. I am not going to reissue gcc, for
instance. I really don't think that it is likely that gcc will be
producing object files greater than 2^32.
We're not going to wait for stragglers to switch over. I gave three
weeks notice about this switch. I suppose I should have been issuing
periodic updates, too.
I'd probably be dead and buried if I tried to wait for everyone to move
to 1.5.2.
cgf