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Re: Updated: 1.7.0-34 (...and a plea)
On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 07:16:51PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Dec 8 13:00, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 06:16:15PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >On Dec 8 12:01, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> >> On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 12:07:33PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >> >Btw., does anything speak against opening Cygwin up for public testing
>> >> >on the Cygwin main list?
>> >>
>> >> I think it is a good idea but I'd like to start tracking 1.7.x like a
>> >> normal release and increasing the x with each new release. That will
>> >> allow us to figure out problems from source code more easily.
>> >
>> >I thought we stick to 1.7.0 until we create the first actual release in
>> >which case we bump the version to 1.7.1. After that we bump every time
>> >again, as in earlier releases.
>>
>> Does it really matter?
>
>Not in a technical sense. It's just the idea that the first official
>release shouldn't be 1.7.24. 1.7.1 sounds much more neat :)
>
>> >Btw., when 1.7 is adopted, we will have to make release-2 an independent
>> >directory again, right? Otherwise we will still pull in new 1.5 packages
>> >which will have inferior features.
>>
>> I think that when 1.7 is adopted
>>
>> release-2 -> release
>> release -> release-deprecated
>>
>> and we make setup.exe changes to accommodate that.
>
>I was just going to agree but ... does that work? The idea is that
>people still using an old setup will get the old release. Since
>"release" is fixed in old versions of setup, it might be more feasible
>to stick to release-2 or to use something along the lines you suggested
>at one point, like, say, "release-nt".
Ah, right. I wasn't thinking that people who had the old release might not
want to update. Too bad we didn't have a mechanism in setup.exe to provide
a warning to people before updating.
So, release-2 becomes a first-class directory, setup.exe -> setup-deprecated.exe
setup-1.7 -> setup.exe?
cgf