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Re: [HEADSUP] Let's start a Cygwin 1.7 release area
On Apr 8 23:46, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr 8 14:16, Brian Dessent wrote:
> > Okay, so, several years ago setup.exe HEAD was modified to look for
> > "release" and "release_legacy" as the base dirname for packages
> > depending on whether it was running on 9x/ME or NT/2k/etc. I understand
>
> Sorry, but I didn't remember that. Why didn't you just tell us?
>
> How do you differ the setup.ini files if you only have different release
> subdirs? setup_legacy.ini?
>
> > that having Cygwin 1.7 playground is a different concept, but why should
> > it be handled differently? Why not "release_1.7"? This is all
> > temporary anyway IIUC, since it's just for testing packages built with
> > 1.7, which will eventually all be moved over into just plain "release"
> > anyway, right? If this is *not* temporary then how does it fit into the
> > idea of having a legacy 9x/ME area?
>
> When I came up with that a couple of days ago, I thought it might be bad
> to rename the current release area for 1.5 so that it keeps working as
> is and downloading from the 1.7 release area requires to make the
> conscience choice to use the 1.7 setup. If we can do this with a
> release-1.7 plus a setup-1.7.ini file, than that's ok for me, too.
And, apart from the actual names used, can we get a matching setup.exe
perhaps this week? Or the next one?
Corinna
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