[rurban: Re: setup.exe command line parameters]

Ralph Hempel rhempel@bmts.com
Tue Jun 24 13:53:00 GMT 2008


Brian Dessent wrote:
> Dave Korn wrote:
> 
>>   Yes, but we haven't actually made that release yet, so I don't see why not
>> to bung in a couple of user feature requests while I'm working on it.
> 
> In that case we should just smooth over the sharp edges on HEAD and do a
> real release and forget about backporting.  With the addition of the
> "check for and cope with a 'tar -T /dev/null' header of 512 \0s" fix I
> think we'd be close, since in this context we're not talking about the
> 1.7 functionality.  That is certainly going to be better than picking
> and choosing a couple of enhancements, which seems rather arbitrary to
> me.

Am I correct in understanding that the HEAD code is still for the
current cygwin and not for the upcoming 1.7, or will setup.exe
be comaptible with both?

Ralph



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