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Re: 1.7.1 release date?
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 12:54:54 -0500
- Subject: Re: 1.7.1 release date?
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On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 06:04:01PM +0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>Should we keep 1.5 docs available in a 1.5 subdir, for bad times?
>
>Yes absolutely. It's going to be in use for years, like 2-digit dates
>and cobol and all those other things we thought would disappear long
>ago(*). (This is why I'd still like to update the old compiler one
>last time, incidentally.)
It's your call but I think it is a very bad idea to be updating a
relatively stable Cygwin release with new stuff just before bumping to a
new version of Cygwin.