Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
If you have been reading this list for any length of time then it should
be obvious that merely mentioning something in cygwin-announce is not an
adequate way to let people know about serious changes.
Trust me I know; my question is why this is being handled differently
than other major changes (e.g. bash), or if you're looking for a new way
in general of notification, particularly as carrying out the change will
confuse much fewer people than leaving the status-quo.
The discussion has been to augment 'setup.exe' in a way as to provide users
with feedback about "important" package changes in general. It has come up
in the context of the gcc change but would have to apply generally.
"Important" would be defined by the maintainer by some mechanism.
Presumably, every release of package 'foo' does not trigger the "important"
flag. ;-)