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Re: [HEADSUP] Let's start a Cygwin 1.7 release area
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 07:40:13PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>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.
In my experience, adding a "new" to any directory or file is a
guaranteed way of ensuring that the name will not always be accurate.
How about cygwinng?
cgf