On Apr 14 10:39, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 03:11:56PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >we're now finally starting the release cycle for Cygwin 1.7. Not > >everything is in it's place, some changes are still in flux and the > >installation is still somewhat bumpy but we should get to all of that > >while testing goes on. > > > >We have set up a new release area which is dedicated to the 1.7 release. > > I was hoping to get a little more feedback on using the union fs before > we announce this. > > I'd like to use the mechanism that I mentioned since it would be the > most transparent for package maintainers. In keeping with the > full-steam approach I guess I'll put it into place today.
Oh, hmm, I assumed you would do that anyway at one point. I'm just a bit surprised that the resulting purged directory is still that big. I thought that more than half the size would be obsolete and "prev" packages. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
