Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution

Dave Korn dk@artimi.com
Wed Oct 6 09:23:00 GMT 2004


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-talk-owner  On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski
> Sent: 06 October 2004 06:19

> > current release tree. Make some sort of ISO available or 
> something, and
> > think up a name other to call it than just "Cygwin" (like, 
> I don't know
> > "Yggdrasil StableCygwin 1.0" or "Roman Catholic StableCygwin 1.0"--I
> > highly recommend using some unique word for Internet searching).
> 
> Yggdrasil is good.  And we could call the unstable 
> distribution Ratatosk.
> :-)


  Surely it should be Ragnarok?

> > [snip]
> > You could start your own mailing lists for people using 
> your "John Kerry
> > StableCygwin 1.0" and perhaps segment our traffic a little.
> 
> Hmm, then the unstable distribution would be...  Ug, no, 
> we're not giving
> it *that* name.  No way!  ;-)

  That wouldn't just be unstable, that'd be positively unhinged!

    cheers, 
      DaveK
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