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Re: frivolous naming suggestion


On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:11:28AM -0500, David Monk wrote:
>>My suggestion is, how about giving the cygwin dll releases nicknames
>>for either rush songs ("Tom Sawyer", "Hold Your Fire") or stars
>>("Polaris", "Sirius").  I'm not sure anyone is having trouble with
>>keeping 1.3.1 and 1.3.3 apart, but if so this might help.  And, it
>>would give something for people to put in /etc/issue if they wanted.
>>:)
>
>If the releases were to begin receiving codenames, similar to how Linux
>systems do, it would be nice to follow suit and store the information
>in a common file and format, such as /etc/cygwin-release.  This would
>be right along the lines of RedHat's /etc/redhat-release.

The Cygwin net release process is more related to Linus's release of
kernels than to Red Hat's release of commercial packages.

AFAIK, Linus does not code name his releases.

Since Red Hat does not really release a commercial product called
"Cygwin", I think that the analogy doesn't really holds up.

cgf

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