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Re: 1.7.1 release date?


On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 06:44:13PM +0100, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> Ok, so if we go release, what's missing?  I could push out the
>> ultimately last Cygwin test DLL today, but that's the smallest
>> part of the release.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> - What else?
>>   
>Sorry to bother you again on this, but I feel there are two issues:
>
>    * I saw in a thread just yesterday that the XWin /tmp problem on FAT
>      drives isn't yet resolved. If that means XWin cannot run on FAT
>      installations (I'll try myself later tonight) it's a show-stopper.
>      The blame may well be on XWin (as cgf said) but that doesn't help
>      because users that need XWin take it as a bundle and will not like
>      this upgrade...

Personally, I don't really care about this.  It's a cost/benefit
tradeoff and we're not going to be modifying Cygwin to fix it.

cgf


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