Forgot about the unionfs.

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Wed Jul 1 20:37:00 GMT 2009


On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 08:51:34PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>However, I don't really understand why the 1.5 version of task won't
>>work on 1.7.  Having a newer version of something in 1.5 sounds like a
>>nice recipe for confusion when 1.7 goes live.
>
>The 1.7 version is going to conform to the new packaging standard,
>which requires a cygwin-specific source patch.

Still don't understand it.  This means confusing users who may be using
1.7.  There isn't much (any?) precedent for having packages only for
1.5.

cgf



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