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Re: 1.7.1 release date?
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 12:53:21 -0500
- Subject: Re: 1.7.1 release date?
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On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 06:44:13PM +0100, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> Ok, so if we go release, what's missing? I could push out the
>> ultimately last Cygwin test DLL today, but that's the smallest
>> part of the release.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> - What else?
>>
>Sorry to bother you again on this, but I feel there are two issues:
>
> * I saw in a thread just yesterday that the XWin /tmp problem on FAT
> drives isn't yet resolved. If that means XWin cannot run on FAT
> installations (I'll try myself later tonight) it's a show-stopper.
> The blame may well be on XWin (as cgf said) but that doesn't help
> because users that need XWin take it as a bundle and will not like
> this upgrade...
Personally, I don't really care about this. It's a cost/benefit
tradeoff and we're not going to be modifying Cygwin to fix it.
cgf