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RE: Now that the new setup is here...
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>,<cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 08:44:15 +1100
- Subject: RE: Now that the new setup is here...
Holdoff please Chuck,
cgf's forwarded post here indicates that there is still at least
one serious bug in 2.194...
Rob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cwilson@ece.gatech.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 8:03 AM
> To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
> Subject: Now that the new setup is here...
>
>
> there were two things I was going to do:
>
> 1) move gettext from the contrib directory to the latest directory --
> and see if anybody barfs.
>
> 2) update bzip2 to the latest release -- which involves the grand
> library split thing (bzip2 -> bzip2 + libbz2_0). However, the name
> "libbz2_0" is incompatible with the old setup, and even 'cygcheck -c'
> gets confused prior to the cygwin-1.3.8 release.
>
> So, once I release libbz2_0, there's no going back to the old
> setup --
> and everybody MUST update to the new setup or their installation will
> become very confused.
>
> Are we confident enough in the current setup.exe to do this? I ask
> because we've already yanked it down ONCE ....
>
> --Chuck
>
>