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Re: [HEADSUP] Let's start a Cygwin 1.7 release area


On Apr  8 13:26, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 06:26:46PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Apr  4 14:15, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> On Apr  3 20:49, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> > [responding to the thread which started it all]
> >> > On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 02:35:51PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> > >- We create a ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwin-1.7 dir.
> >> > >
> >> > >- Under that dir, we create the full release directory structure as it
> >> > >  exists in the parallel cygwin dir, except for the "cygwin" itself.
> >> > 
> >> > So far so good.
> >
> >I'm just not sure we should really call it "cygwin-1.7".  What would
> >be a good name, which does not refer to the actual version number?
> >
> >  "Cygwin" with uppercase C?
> >
> >I'm volunteering to create the directory layout...
> 
> Too bad we can't call it cygwin2.dll.
> 
> I don't think making it differ by case is a good idea.  This is bound
> to cause problems for Windows somehow.
> 
> cygwin-xp?  cygwin-2008?

cysta? :)

cygwin-2008 isn't bad, though.

> cygwin-nextgen?

Or just cygwin-new, maybe.  I'd take any of them, -new or -2008.


Corinna

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