1.7.1 release date?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 08:00:00AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
>Corinna wrote:
>> cgf wrote:
>>> I was talking about not changing the directory name for a non-beta
>>> release.
>>
>> Sorry, but I don't understand this.  You proposed that the directory
>> gets renamed from release-2 to release, which would collide with the
>> old release directory name.  How is that talking about "not" renaming
>> a directory?!?
>
>Oh, I get it -- finally.
>
>The current non-beta release, 1.5.25, lives in release/
>
>cgf sez the next non-beta release, 1.7.1, should live in release/ (it
>doesn't matter where it lives NOW; it's currently in beta so that
>location doesn't "count").
>
>Thus, the non-beta "home" should continue to be "release/" -- e.g., no
>"renaming".

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2009-12/msg00042.html

>If we didn't care about legacy users, that would be the end of it.  We'd
>simply do a mass copy of everything in release-2/ over to release/, and
>rm -rf release-2.  Since we DO care (a little bit) about legacy users,
>we first "copy" the current contents of release/ over to
>release-legacy/.  (The actual mechanics of this: breaking the union
>mount, and simply doing directory level renames, is an implementation
>detail).

And, I already have a populated release-legacy ready to go.

cgf