Forgot about the unionfs.

Dave Korn dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com
Thu Jul 2 00:02:00 GMT 2009


Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 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.

  1.7 just needs a quick respin, I didn't see any reason to delay releasing
the 1.5 version for that; don't suppose it'll take more than a few days for
the 1.7 version to be ready.

    cheers,
      DaveK



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