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Re: Next major Cygwin version?


On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 01:08:44PM -0600, Aaron Humphrey wrote:
>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.

The even numbers are reserved by the government.  They maintain hidden
branches for their experiments in mind-control-through-cygwin.  I guess
the experiments have been successful, if you're claiming never to have
seen a cygwin version 1.6.x.

cgf


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