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RE: when is next release of setup.exe
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: "linda w (cyg)" <cygwin at tlinx dot org>
- Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 17:40:59 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: RE: when is next release of setup.exe
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, linda w (cyg) wrote:
> > The problem is, way back then when 2.249.2.5 was release, gcc3 didn't exist
> > yet. The setup code from then didn't comply strictly enough to C++ standards
> ===
> Heresy!! Not compliant with standards...how could they?! I'm
> ashamed to be hobnobbin' with such types...ignoring standards...fooey!
> :-| (*str8-face*)
>
> > Probably the easiest option is to abandon 2.249.2.5, and grab the
> > latest source from CVS.
>
> Sigh...mumble, grumble...seems like every product I work with I'm always
> redirected to the CVS tree....:-) (just got directed there, yesterday,
> when I wanted some XFS-inode analysis script)...
Well, what do you expect? Tools evolve. Packaged source does not (at
least, any particular packaged version doesn't).
> Little solace in having the source if the tools to generate one's binary
> from said source aren't around anymore...:-{
There are two reasons to get the source for some package:
a) for reference, in which case you don't care whether it compiles, or
b) for development, in which case you might want to get the latest anyway
> I'll have to see if I'm interested enough in doing this to setup
> CVS...
> Thanks, -linda
The CVS version is trivial to compile - just follow the instructions at
<http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html>.
Igor
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