On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 5:22 AM, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 6 17:39, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > Adam Thompson wrote: > >> On 06/03/2008, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> wrote: > >>> It is one of the many enhancements in the forthcoming 1.7 series. And > >>> it seems it is also an excruciatingly large task. There is no timetable > >>> for 1.7 as a result. But many hands make light work. If you and others > >>> you know have hands to lend, I know Corinna has a list of tasks that can > >>> use them. > >>> > >> Is this list published anywhere? > >> I'm not a developer (unless you're porting to Sinclair ZX BASIC), but > >> perhaps there are some tasks that us sysadmin/support/doco people can > >> help with? > > > > I remember a list of tasks being sent to this list by Corrina but I can't > > s/rrin/rinn/ > > That list was send to the developer's ML. > > > > put my finger on it right now. As I recall, these were all development > > tasks. Corrina would be the best one to say if there are specific tasks > > in the areas you mentioned. > > I'm going to check in my changes today, which will really enable using > long pathnames for the first time. it can now access and create long > paths, as well as start applications stored in long paths. > > However, it's certainly still buggy and missing features. I'll follow > up with what is done and what's not done on the developer's list. > > For the curious and the brave, the next developer's snapshot from > http://cygwin.com/snapshots will be something to test. > > > Corinna > > -- > Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to > Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Red Hat
Wow, that's great. Here I am being a pain about it, and it looks like it's getting close to landing. I just want to say that I appreciate all of your hard work on cygwin. I don't think I could use Windows without it! :) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
