1.7.1 release date?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 10:34:30PM +0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
>> And that also shows a misconception I was stumbling over:  Of course
>> we don't need new setup.exe and setup-legacy.exe files if we just
>> rename the directories, since it's all in the ini files anyway.
>
>  How does it know /which/ setup.ini file to download if you don't have two
>separate versions?
>
>  Also, since we're going to drop a new setup.exe in place of the old one,
>should we perhaps as a favour for the inevitable few who will be taken by
>surprise by this and might not have wanted to upgrade, make it put up a
>requester when it's about to do a 1.5->1.7 upgrade and get an explicit OK from
>the user (or fail in unattended mode)?  There are undoubtedly plenty of people
>who don't subscribe to the mailing list and won't know the changeover is
>happening.

So, if I'm getting this right, apparently there's something in updating
from 1.5 to 1.7 which will cause major problems for people who routinely
run setup.exe to update their installations.

In that case, I guess 1.7 isn't really ready to be released.  That's too
bad.

cgf