Hi Christopher, That answers my question well enough.
Thank you, and again great work on cygwin. Devin On Aug 19, 2012, at 2:56 PM, "Christopher Faylor" wrote: > On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 07:28:31PM +0000, Devin Nate wrote: >> Yeah, we won't be forking a new version... We'll either go commercial >> via Red Hat or select a 1.7.x version that works for us. We want to be >> part if the effort and contribute as such. >> >> The real spirit of my question was this.... We develop software >> ourselves, and sometimes we put out a "stable / production" version >> which we know has more unproven features, or has undergone some major >> refactoring, and inspite of QA and testing and we expect more bugs. At >> other times, we know that we've got a stable release and it's proven to >> work well. >> >> The spirit of my question "which version do you like" was in that >> light. I follow the cygwin list, and constantly see reports of bugs >> and fixes, and use this snapshot or that... Great work for sure. It's >> hard for me to evaluate when the bugs are minor, or, where there has >> been a major refactoring and all the bugs are getting worked out. > > I'm not sure if you're still fishing for Corinna or me to give you a > recommendation but I'm not going to do that. I really don't have a > ready answer and the question is too open-ended to be useful even if I > did. "Stable" might mean different things depending on what you're > doing. If you have a long-running build then maybe there is a bug in > the current version which will cause a problem. But, if you are > primarily interested in making sure a network connection stays up then > maybe the latest version is the one you want. Or, maybe you're > accessing files from a new version of Samba. In that case you also > probably want the newest version. > > We do fix bugs constantly so, in general, the latest released version > should always be better than the previous version. And, since it is > possible that we might add a new function or two to a new release, > you'll want to be using the latest if you ever want to upgrade the > version of ssh, bash, or associated dlls. Otherwise, the newer binaries > won't work. > > cgf > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
