On Jul 23 21:44, John Morrison wrote: > On Wed, July 23, 2008 7:00 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > I'd be happy if even the most important packages have been rebuilt for > > 1.7. So far the reactions from the package maintainers were somewhat > > reticent. > > I think that'll probably alter once there's a setup for 1.7. Speaking > personally I *need* my installation of cygwin and couldn't stand to be > without it. (I will get 'round to patching the base packages, but I > was/did hand these over to Igor; is he still around?)
Igor is still around, yes. I didn't know (or forgot again) you handed over maintainership of the base packages. Igor? > X under 1.7 is a requirement for me. Just wish I had the skills to get > the latest version working. > > >> OTOH I'm not sure what the user reaction would be. I suppose one > >> compromise would be to require users to "rm -fr /etc/setup" before > >> upgrading to 1.7. > > Once X works, that works for me :) Why is X so important for testing and building packages? I mean, the console window and rxvt exist, right? Personally I'm doing a lot in my Linux X console, connecting to my Windows machines via rdesktop and ssh in an xterm. Btw., since 1.5 and 1.7 can co-exist running in different directories, there should be no problem running 1.7 based rxvt/xterm in a 1.5 X server. > > We *really* need a new setup for 1.7 which doesn't access the "Cygnus > > Solutions" registry key anymore. > > Agreed :( > > J. > > (attempting to find some time!) Please with sugar? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat