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Re: [HEADSUP] Maintainers, please switch to Cygwin 1.7
On Feb 10 11:40, Warren Young wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> Other than that I'm wondering about the small trickle of bug reports
>> related to Cygwin 1.7. Either it's already quite stable, or it gets
>> only tested by 3 or 4 users...
>
> .38 fixed the only two bugs I've seen with 1.7: the scp bug and the
> cygcheck -r infinite recursion on Vista 64. Both were reported and solved
> on the lists before I ran into them. So, thank you for responding to both
> quickly!
>
> Well, there's still the 1.5/1.7 entanglement problem, but that's not going
> to be fixed, so we can't count that.
What "entanglement problem"? I'm really not sure what you mean, given
that you can install and run(!) a 1.5 and a 1.7 based distro on the same
machine. I often run a 1.5 tcsh and a 1.7 tcsh in parallel. They simply
don't know of each other.
Corinna
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