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It appears now that a near-final gcc-4.3 is just about to hit the distro. Once that happens, I intend to focus my time on rebuilding packages for cygwin-1.7/gcc-4.3. The new features in cygwin-1.7 should expedite the process of moving Ports' overlapping packages back into the distro, which should help solve a lot of the installation issues we currently face. I anticipate deprecating a number of old packages as well. This will leave Ports as what it was originally intended to be: a supplement to the distro, not a replacement thereof, where new packages could be tested en route to the distro, or as a home for packages which may not be of broad enough interest to justify their inclusion. I intend to leave the cygwin-1.5 packages available for download until cygwin-1.7 goes stable later this year, but updates to the 1.5 repo will soon be limited to critical bug fixes. Given the sheer quantity of packages currently in Ports, the amount of time required to continually update for 1.5 and rebuild for 1.7 simultaneously is just too prohibitive. But there will be at least one more upload before then. Thanks once again to Jon, we're about to have Xinerama support available in XWin, and I'm in the process of rebuilding a number of packages which can use Xinerama support. Those updates will be uploaded for 1.5 once the relevant Cygwin/X packages are available. More details will follow shortly. I appreciate your support and patience during this transition, and I hope that the results will be well worth it. Yaakov Cygwin Ports -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEAREIAAYFAkmSOEQACgkQpiWmPGlmQSMvHACg5m9IcakUpFtU6pvV1quhtss0 /74AoMi6+eJk3N3TNr7APlaw1+ZXDo4W =jYz5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ Cygwin-ports-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cygwin-ports-general
