On Apr 9 05:09, Brian Dessent wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > Yes. I'm just wondering if we could do without the final rename of the > > directories. The Cygwin release area isn't that small, > 4 Gigs. A > > simple top-level directory rename will force all mirrors world-wide to > > copy the whole area. Twice, because we will have two release areas. > > > > If that's a minor concern, we do as above. Otherwise, I'd suggest to > > create a "release-2" area and to update just setup.exe accordingly. > > We can still rename the .ini files without renaming the directory trees, > it's all just a matter of how the upset cron job runs. I'm not sure if > that really buys any clarity, but what it does do is allow us to "swap > in" the entire staging area atomically once 1.7 is released. Otherwise, > only users who updated their setup.exe would ever see the 1.7 release. > I can almost see the email messages now: "Is Cygwin dead? I haven't > seen a new release of the DLL or any updated packages in the last <nn> > months?!?!"
Ok, let's decide about renaming directories at some later point. For now, I will just create a second dir for the 1.7 test release. Last call for the right name: release-ng release-2 release-2008 release-1.7 My favorite would be release-2. It has nothing to do with the DLL version number, it's just release 2 of the net distro. I will happily use any other name as long as we can agree to take off in the next days. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
