1.7.1 release date?
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri Dec 4 16:04:00 GMT 2009
On Dec 1 19:44, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Dec 1 13:10, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > If we're keeping 1.5 then this is what I'd like to see:
> >
> > 1) It is frozen. New new updates. I don't think the mailing list should be
> > cluttered with new package issues and I don't want to keep running upset to
> > generate two setup.ini's.
>
> I agree.
>
> > 2) You have to explicitly select it. I'd rather not have a setup.exe
> > which automatically chooses 1.5 if you're running on Windows 95. I
> > think the current setup.exe should pop up an error if it is attempted to
> > be run on a unsupported OS. Maybe there could still be one version of
> > setup.exe but you have to supply a --legacy option or something.
>
> In that case I'd prefer an explicit setup-1.5.exe.
>
> > 3) Optionally: Any mention of 1.5 be on it's on web page away from the
> > front page.
>
> Right, just as a side-note for 9x users in an unobtrusive place:
>
> "For the old release which works on Windows 95/98/Me, look
> <href="win-9x.html>here</href>"
Followup:
- I patched setup-1.7 to refuse a 9x install. I'm just going to build
this and then upload to cygwin.com.
What I'm planning to do between today and Sunday:
- Release the last Cygwin-1.7.0 beta today.
Question: Shall I add the getopt patch?
- Upload the new setup-1.7.exe to cygwin.com, but do not yet rename it
to setup.exe.
- HEADSUP to cygwin-apps: No new 1.5 packages.
- Copy setup.exe to setup-1.5.exe.
Question: Should we call it setup-9x.exe?
- Copy the old documentation to cygwin.com/1.5
- Create a win-9x.html page which just contains a short drivel about
Windows 9x not being supported anymore and for sake of the 4 9x users
we still provide an unsupported old release of Cygwin. Please use
setup-1.5.exe to install that old unsupported version. Did I mention
that it's unsupported? Oh and, old documentation is available under
cygwin.com/1.5/{cygwin-api/cygwin-api,cygwin-ug-net/index,faq}.html
- Bump the version number of Cygwin to 1.7.1.
- Create the release package but do not yet upload it.
- Create a new index.html page which drops the beta release fluff.
So that leaves for the next week:
- Waiting for your ok.
- Upload Cygwin 1.7.1.
- Create new "News" article for 1.7.1.
- Commit web changes.
- Write announcement.
- Go into vacation immediatly.
Does that sound about right?
Corinna
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