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Next major Cygwin version?
- From: Aaron Humphrey <alfvaen at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:08:44 -0600
- Subject: Next major Cygwin version?
- Reply-to: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Reply-to: alfvaen at gmail dot com
FIrst off, let me say that this is my first post to cygwin-talk, but
I've been lurking on the main Cygwin list for a couple of years now,
and using Cygwin since long before I had any idea how to figure out
what the version number was--probably 5-6 years. Just after I fixed
the boot sector I'd trashed while trying to install LILO, and gave up
on Linux completely, but I still really wanted to use vi...
Anyway, I remember being a little bit surprised when Cygwin jumped
from 1.3.x to 1.5.x. I have no idea when the next major version
number change is likely to take place, but I confess to being mildly
curious as to what that number would be. I seem to recall that 1.4
was used for the Red Hat commercial release of Cygwin or something
like that, which would explain why that number was skipped. However,
I also know that CVS has a fondness for odd version numbers, and likes
to reserve the even ones for some usage that I can't remember.
So, basically, is it likely that we will one day see Cygwin DLL
version 1.6.x, or 1.7.x? Or is 2.0.x(or 2.1.x) likely to show up
first?
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