Re: snapshots

[Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>]

On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 06:00:38PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>--- Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> wrote:
>>On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 09:14:03PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>>>--- Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> wrote:
>>>>On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 06:36:58PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>>>>>It would be extremely helpful if that days winsup changes were
>>>>>available online in a file similarly named as ChangeLog.YYYYMMDD.txt.
>>>>>Is this doable?
>>>>
>>>>It's not likely.  We already provide this information in a couple of
>>>>different forms.
>>>
>>>Actually I found that I can view the winsup/ChangeLog on line if I
>>>visit http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/WinNT/gnu-win32/snapshots/ and
>>>choose the
>>listing
>>>of the particular winsup-src snapshot tarball and choose the
>>winsup/ChangeLog
>>>file from the listing.  Their servers are quick at doing this too.
>>
>>I'm not sure exactly what you need.  The ChangeLog differences are
>>available on the snapshots page.  They always have been.  They're also
>>available in the diff file.
>
>Huh??  The only place I know to get the ChangeLog is from within the
>winsup-src-YYYYMMCC.tar.gz file.  There is no separate ChangeLog file
>or diff file available on the snapshots page.
>
>I brought it up in the first place because I might not always want to
>download the 1M file just to find out what changed today.

I am referring to the ChangeLog entry on each snapshot item on the
cygwin snapshot web page.  This lists the ChangeLog differences since
the last snapshot.  There is also a diffs file since the last snapshot
which contains changes to the ChangeLog.

For instance, here is the URL of the last ChangeLog difference:

http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/snapshots/winsup-changelog-19990717-19990718

I have absolutely no idea why you are asserting that there is no
ChangeLog file or diff file available.  This has been a feature of
the snapshots page since the beginning.

cgf