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Re: 1.7.1 release date?
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 05:28:08PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Dec 4 11:13, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 05:04:00PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >- Copy setup.exe to setup-1.5.exe.
>> >
>> > Question: Should we call it setup-9x.exe?
>>
>> I think setup-legacy makes more sense.
>
>Ok.
>
>> >- Create a win-9x.html page which just contains a short drivel about
>> > Windows 9x not being supported anymore and for sake of the 4 9x users
>> > we still provide an unsupported old release of Cygwin. Please use
>> > setup-1.5.exe to install that old unsupported version. Did I mention
>> > that it's unsupported? Oh and, old documentation is available under
>> > cygwin.com/1.5/{cygwin-api/cygwin-api,cygwin-ug-net/index,faq}.html
>>
>> Doesn't calling it "win-9x" almost guarantee the "What about Windows ME"
>> question?
>
>I'm planing to make this absolutely clear in the pointers to that page,
>and the text on this page.
>
>> >- Create a new index.html page which drops the beta release fluff.
>> >
>> >So that leaves for the next week:
>> >
>> >- Waiting for your ok.
>> >
>> >- Upload Cygwin 1.7.1.
>> >
>> >- Create new "News" article for 1.7.1.
>> >
>> >- Commit web changes.
>> >
>> >- Write announcement.
>> >
>> >- Go into vacation immediatly.
>> >
>> >Does that sound about right?
>>
>> I'm not sure how this relates to the current release directory layout.
>> I was thinking that release-2 -> release and release -> release-legacy.
>> I thought that setup-legacy.exe would install the old stuff and
>> setup.exe would, as always, install the current stuff.
>
>We discussed this already multiple times. The idea was not to rename
>the new release directory. It will be still called release-2 and only
>the unionfs is supposed to go away. Otherwise you would have to rebuild
>the old setup version as well. It's a lot of hassle for no gain.
Well, apparently we didn't discuss it in this thread. I think it is a
very bad idea to have a "release" directory which contains old stuff and
I think it is moderately bad idea to have a "release-2" directory
permanently associated with Cygwin 1.7.
If it is just rebuilding setup.exe that is the problem then I can do
that. I have the changes nearly ready to go, in fact.
cgf