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

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Tue Apr 8 17:27:00 GMT 2008


On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 06:26:46PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>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...

Too bad we can't call it cygwin2.dll.

I don't think making it differ by case is a good idea.  This is bound
to cause problems for Windows somehow.

cygwin-xp?  cygwin-2008?

cygwin-nextgen?

cgf



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