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RE: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the wholeCygwin release/ distribution
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 10:18:16 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: RE: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the wholeCygwin release/ distribution
- References: <NUTMEGswZqekSWDUN0S000002a2@NUTMEG.CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
- Reply-to: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Dave Korn wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-talk-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski
> > Sent: 06 October 2004 06:19
>
> > > current release tree. Make some sort of ISO available or something,
> > > and think up a name other to call it than just "Cygwin" (like, I
> > > don't know "Yggdrasil StableCygwin 1.0" or "Roman Catholic
> > > StableCygwin 1.0"--I highly recommend using some unique word for
> > > Internet searching).
> >
> > Yggdrasil is good. And we could call the unstable
> > distribution Ratatosk.
> > :-)
>
> Surely it should be Ragnarok?
Nah, Ragnarok happens only occasionally (like on a switch to 1.5.*)...
> > > [snip]
> > > You could start your own mailing lists for people using your "John
> > > Kerry StableCygwin 1.0" and perhaps segment our traffic a little.
> >
> > Hmm, then the unstable distribution would be... Ug, no, we're not
> > giving it *that* name. No way! ;-)
>
> That wouldn't just be unstable, that'd be positively unhinged!
Well, we could reserve that name for known buggy snapshots... ];->
Igor
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