Welcoming Brian Dessent as setup maintainer

Brian Dessent brian@dessent.net
Fri May 6 00:37:00 GMT 2005


Max Bowsher wrote:

> Don't be sorry at all. :-)
> 
> trunk is supposed to be "under active development" - I think that it is
> perfectly OK to commit first and then discuss for any non-controversial
> changes.

Heh.  Turns out I screwed up the button groups on the 'RootPage' dialog
pretty bad.  Just committed a fix, going to upload a new test version. 
If anyone is trying these test versions, please get the new one.

> To avoid confusion, it might be better to name the executable something that
> hints at it not being compiled from purely committed code.
> 
> Perhaps setup-2.490M.exe (M for modified), or setup-2.490+.exe.

http://cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-2.494-alpha.exe

That should connotate the level of bugginess to expect, no?  :)

Brian
(testers wanted)



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