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Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2
On Jul 23 21:44, John Morrison wrote:
> On Wed, July 23, 2008 7:00 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > I'd be happy if even the most important packages have been rebuilt for
> > 1.7. So far the reactions from the package maintainers were somewhat
> > reticent.
>
> I think that'll probably alter once there's a setup for 1.7. Speaking
> personally I *need* my installation of cygwin and couldn't stand to be
> without it. (I will get 'round to patching the base packages, but I
> was/did hand these over to Igor; is he still around?)
Igor is still around, yes. I didn't know (or forgot again) you handed
over maintainership of the base packages. Igor?
> X under 1.7 is a requirement for me. Just wish I had the skills to get
> the latest version working.
>
> >> OTOH I'm not sure what the user reaction would be. I suppose one
> >> compromise would be to require users to "rm -fr /etc/setup" before
> >> upgrading to 1.7.
>
> Once X works, that works for me :)
Why is X so important for testing and building packages? I mean,
the console window and rxvt exist, right? Personally I'm doing a lot
in my Linux X console, connecting to my Windows machines via rdesktop
and ssh in an xterm. Btw., since 1.5 and 1.7 can co-exist running in
different directories, there should be no problem running 1.7 based
rxvt/xterm in a 1.5 X server.
> > We *really* need a new setup for 1.7 which doesn't access the "Cygnus
> > Solutions" registry key anymore.
>
> Agreed :(
>
> J.
>
> (attempting to find some time!)
Please with sugar?
Corinna
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