On Thu, July 24, 2008 10:08 am, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > 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?
testing and building no, but I suspect that for most maintainers (at least those with only one or two packages) the package is a 'thank you' back to cygwin for the environment so the stability of the environment is very important. I know that's why I started with the base- packages, 'cause I wanted to improve the 'out of the box' experience. > 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. I didn't know that. >> (attempting to find some time!) > > Please with sugar? I only have windows at work now and all my time is 'allocated' to projects... trying! If I don't get it done before the weekend I'll get a virtual machine running. Promise. J.