Re: Which version of cygwin 'rock solid'

[Devin Nate <devin dot nate at cloudwerx dot com>]

Hi Christopher,

That answers my question well enough.

Thank you, and again great work on cygwin.

Devin


On Aug 19, 2012, at 2:56 PM, "Christopher Faylor" wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 07:28:31PM +0000, Devin Nate wrote:
>> Yeah, we won't be forking a new version...  We'll either go commercial
>> via Red Hat or select a 1.7.x version that works for us.  We want to be
>> part if the effort and contribute as such.
>> 
>> The real spirit of my question was this....  We develop software
>> ourselves, and sometimes we put out a "stable / production" version
>> which we know has more unproven features, or has undergone some major
>> refactoring, and inspite of QA and testing and we expect more bugs.  At
>> other times, we know that we've got a stable release and it's proven to
>> work well.
>> 
>> The spirit of my question "which version do you like" was in that
>> light.  I follow the cygwin list, and constantly see reports of bugs
>> and fixes, and use this snapshot or that...  Great work for sure.  It's
>> hard for me to evaluate when the bugs are minor, or, where there has
>> been a major refactoring and all the bugs are getting worked out.
> 
> I'm not sure if you're still fishing for Corinna or me to give you a
> recommendation but I'm not going to do that.  I really don't have a
> ready answer and the question is too open-ended to be useful even if I
> did.  "Stable" might mean different things depending on what you're
> doing.  If you have a long-running build then maybe there is a bug in
> the current version which will cause a problem.  But, if you are
> primarily interested in making sure a network connection stays up then
> maybe the latest version is the one you want.  Or, maybe you're
> accessing files from a new version of Samba.  In that case you also
> probably want the newest version.
> 
> We do fix bugs constantly so, in general, the latest released version
> should always be better than the previous version.  And, since it is
> possible that we might add a new function or two to a new release,
> you'll want to be using the latest if you ever want to upgrade the
> version of ssh, bash, or associated dlls.  Otherwise, the newer binaries
> won't work.
> 
> cgf
> 
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