Re: [HEADSUP] Let's start a Cygwin 1.7 release area

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Apr  4 14:15, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr  3 20:49, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > [responding to the thread which started it all]
> > On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 02:35:51PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > >- We create a ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwin-1.7 dir.
> > >
> > >- Under that dir, we create the full release directory structure as it
> > >  exists in the parallel cygwin dir, except for the "cygwin" itself.
> > 
> > So far so good.

I'm just not sure we should really call it "cygwin-1.7".  What would
be a good name, which does not refer to the actual version number?

  "Cygwin" with uppercase C?

I'm volunteering to create the directory layout...

> > >- All files in the original release dir are hardlinked into their
> > >  matching spot in the cygwin-1.7 dir.
> > 
> > I don't like hardlinking.  It's too easy to have unintended side
> > effects.  I think I'd rather just symlink the directories in the new
> > release area then rm the symlink and create a new directory when it's
> > time to populate the directory with a 1.7 version.
> 
> In theory I agree, but it lets more room for mistakes.  It's very easy
> to have a new package and just move the files to the directory, instead
> of checking if the directory is a symlink or a real dir.  If the dir
> is a real dir from the start, you just dump the new package into the
> dir and remove the oldest files and be done.
> 
> Anyway, it's nothing I really get excited about.

...using the directory symlink approach.

Could one of the setup.exe guys then create a matching setup.exe
binary?  Please?


Thanks,
Corinna

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