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Re: 1.7.1 release date?
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:24:13PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 05:15:48PM +0100, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>>Corinna Vinschen schrieb:
>>> On Nov 19 09:04, Charles Wilson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Corinna wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> So, what do you all think about the shape 1.7 is in?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It surely has still bugs, but is it stable enough that we can
>>>>>> contemplate a release, finally?
>>>>>>
>>As a general concern, considering this is a major step and there was a
>>showstopper with X Windows very recently, I would let it settle for a
>>few weeks (say 2 or 3) before *I* would dare this step now.
>>
>>>>> I think we can. I've been using it in a production environment for
>>>>> quite a while with no issues.
>>>>>
>>The X issue was one. Another might be installation. I reported trouble
>>on one machine recently where I could not install cygwin to a network
>>drive.
>
>And, is this a regression?
>
>>Assume just 1% of cygwin users have this trouble and image the
>>number of complaints...
>
>Imagine of 10% of cygwin users started using Windows 7.
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