> Given that 1.7 is due really soon now (before summer), I'm wondering if > not all maintainers should switch to Cygwin 1.7 now and build packages > for 1.7 only from now on. > > The foremost advantage would be that all maintainers would automatically > test Cygwin 1.7. The subsequent advantage would be that more people on > the cygwin list would be inclined to give 1.7 a try and we would get > more bug reports. > > Other than that I'm wondering about the small trickle of bug reports > related to Cygwin 1.7. Either it's already quite stable, or it gets > only tested by 3 or 4 users...
I've been using 1.7 for all of my daily work for about 2 months now. As in Warren's case, all of the bugs I encountered there have now been fixed. Even PuTTYcyg has a test release out now that works just fine with 1.7: http://code.google.com/p/puttycyg/issues/detail?id=16#c8. I take that back, there is one 256-color bug in 1.7 that I need to report. Most people would never encounter it. I've been running 1.5 alongside of 1.7 as needed for testing, with no compatibility problems. I expect to release a few more final package updates for 1.5, then pack it away. Andrew.
