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Re: 1.7.1 release date?


On Dec  1 13:00, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 06:02:47PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >- Move 1.7 documentation to it's rightful place.
> >  Should we keep 1.5 docs available in a 1.5 subdir, for bad times?
> 
> I guess it depends on whether we are going to make a "Legacy
> Documentation" link on the web page.  That would be the only way
> it would make sense, IMO.
> 
> I would personally rather remove all traces of 1.5 from cygwin.com.
> Many disagree with me, but I'm a big fan of removing old cruft whenever
> we can.

It doesn't cost us anything to keep the 1.5 release area up and the
hardcore 9x users aren't left alone entirely.  We should just make
clear that it's unsupported and probably we should refuse to take any
new 1.5 package from today or next week on.


Corinna

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