New release time?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 09:55:33AM -0400, Joe Buehler wrote:
>Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
>>As soon as we release 1.3.23, we should go ahead and rebuild all packages
>>under control of at least people on this list within a week.  On
>>cygwin-apps we should encourage all maintainers to rebuild as quick as
>>possible and we should set a date (+6 months or so) after which all
>>non-rebuilt packages are removed from the distro.  This has the
>>interesting side effect that we can see which packages have lost their
>>maintainers ;-)
>
>Why do the 64 bit changes require package recompiles?  Is something going
>to break, or is this for efficiency reasons?
>
>I'm scared -- I have local packages that I don't want to recompile...

No recompilation should be necessary.  Things should continue to work.

cgf