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Re: Forgot about the unionfs.
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