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Re: obstacles to 1.5.3?
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 23:08:06 -0400
- Subject: Re: obstacles to 1.5.3?
- References: <20030822021001.GA32015@redhat.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 10:10:01PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>I'm sure I've destabilized something with my changes to the signal
>handling code but, other than that, are there any obstacles to going
>gold with 1.5.3 on Sunday? I'd like to release the DLL and switch all
>of the packages out of test mode.
>
>The only obstacles to doing this that I can see is if there are 32/64
>bit problems that are still unaddressed. Otherwise, problems like weird
>signal handling are just the normal "cygwin 1.5.3 doesn't work for me"
>variety, fixable with a new update. I'd just like to get everybody
>moved onto the new 64 bit code ASAP.
To answer my own question, I forgot about the serious thread problems
that are being addressed over in newlib. I'll wait for those to
be resolved before releasing.
cgf