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Re: How do I roll back to make 3.80 ?
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
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- Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 17:30:45 -0500
- Subject: Re: How do I roll back to make 3.80 ?
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On Wed, Nov 01, 20.06 at 06:58:29AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
>According to Bill Hoffman on 11/1/2006 6:54 AM:
>> So, make 3.8.2 should have the patch.
>
>Please, cgf, whatever you do, DON'T revert all the way back to make
>3.8.x - - that is just way too old for my liking :) Or more generally,
>why do people have the habit of mistyping version numbers when
>composing emails? (although I'm probably guilty of that myself, at
>times)
Adding or deleting dots seems to be time-honored version-reporting
tradition in the cygwin lists. There is also the use
some-random-number-that-I-noticed-on-my-screen method which seems to be
equally popular.
Btw, just to add to the POSIX fun, Corinna is thinking about making the
output of readlink() always report a POSIX path. Get ready for the
shrieks of indignation now. You heard it here first.
cgf