Will there ever be a new free release?

[Earnie Boyd]

--- Michael Lipp <michael.lipp@danet.de> wrote:
> I have not understood the relationship between the cygwin
> version that I can download freely (b20.1) and the commercially
> available cygwin (1.0). In my understanding of the GPL, all changes
> made by cygwin should be made available to us as differences
> to the freely available version.
> 
> Or is everything integrated in the current snapshot? If yes

Yes.  On the CD you not only have the original source to the contributed
binaries but also the patches to the contributing binaries as well as the
winsup (cygwin1.dll) source and the newlib source which the winsup source is
dependant on.  The winsup code (this is what makes up what is known as
cygwin1.dll) is what is mostly changing in the snapshots.  Besides winsup,
there could be possible changes to newlib, and cygwin relative executables such
as mount, umount.  You can find these changes in the cygwin-src tarball on the
snapshot page.

> will there ever be another freely available "stabalized"
> version like e.g. "b21" or will there only be snapshots
> in the future?

Yes there will be a future Net Release.  It is most likely to be named Cygwin
1.1.0.  When?  Yet To Be Determined.




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