As announced last week, the long-awaited Cygwin 1.7 release is now stable. Cygwin 1.5 is now officially obsolete, although for now it remains available for Windows 9x/Me users.
What does that mean for Cygwin Ports? 1) You must use the latest setup.exe (for 1.7) or setup-legacy.exe (for 1.5) from cygwin.com in order to install from either Ports or the distro. 2) There will be no further updates to the 1.5 packages (not that there has been in a while, either, but now it's official). Packages for 1.5 will remain on the servers for now, but they are unsupported. 3) There may be some packages that were available in Ports for 1.5 but have not (yet) been built for 1.7. If you're desperately missing something in particular, please mention it on the list and I'll see what I can do. 4) OTOH, there are all sorts of new packages that weren't previously available, and more are on the way. Currently in progress: Mono 2.4 with Gtk# and friends, a mostly-5.0-compatible GNU Classpath Java stack, KOffice 2.1, a partial update to KDE 4.3, and more. Please be sure to read the new documentation on cygwin.com before upgrading to 1.7. There are a ton of changes in this release, but the new features make it well worth it. Enjoy! Yaakov Cygwin Ports ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Cygwin-ports-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cygwin-ports-general
