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Re: Cygwin Release process


William A. Hoffman wrote:
> Is there any way to control the versions of programs you get from
> setup.exe? The cygwin environment is different on almost every
> machine at our company. It all depends on when you ran the setup
> program.    I have two suggestions:
>
> 1. It would be nice, if there was a cygwin-stable that had a list of
> stable packages that you could download.   This would be updated two
> to three times a year, with testing.   I belive Debian does something
> like this.

Theoretically, all [curr] packages are stable.
Besides, where do you propose we get a load of testers from, two or three
times a year?

> 2. Failing that, it would be nice if the setup program had a button
> that
> set all the values to Keep.   The problem is that if I want a new
> package X, I have to click 20 other packages to Keep, or risk an
> update of everything. There should be a way to update one single
> package.   Is there a way?

It's in CVS. The next snapshot will have it.


Max.


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