Re: [HEADSUP] Let's start a Cygwin 1.7 release area

2008-04-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 13 15:35, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 11:42:46AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: We would need to transfer them to the new place or we stick to the Cygnus Solutions for backward compatibility. I'm not sure we still need the Program Options thingy. I never heard

Re: [ITP] xmds-1.6.5

2008-04-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 13 11:49, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Corinna Vinschen writes: Gentoo is not valid since it packs everything, including the kitchen sink. For Debian we require that it's in stable. But if it's in Ubuntu, it's ok. Now *somebody* has to review it... hint, hint Is that

Re: [ITA] transfig: Tools for creating TeX documents with graphics

2008-04-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 13 21:49, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: wget http://volkerzell.de/cygwin/ITP/transfig/setup.hint wget http://volkerzell.de/cygwin/ITP/transfig/transfig-3.2.5-1-src.tar.bz2 wget http://volkerzell.de/cygwin/ITP/transfig/transfig-3.2.5-1.tar.bz2 Looks good, uploaded. Thanks, Corinna --

[HEADSUP] Start of Cygwin 1.7 release cycle

2008-04-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
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

Re: [ITA] transfig: Tools for creating TeX documents with graphics

2008-04-14 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Corinna Vinschen writes: On Apr 13 21:49, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: wget http://volkerzell.de/cygwin/ITP/transfig/setup.hint wget http://volkerzell.de/cygwin/ITP/transfig/transfig-3.2.5-1-src.tar.bz2 wget http://volkerzell.de/cygwin/ITP/transfig/transfig-3.2.5-1.tar.bz2

Re: [ITA] transfig: Tools for creating TeX documents with graphics

2008-04-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 14 15:26, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: wget http://volkerzell.de/cygwin/ITP/xfig/setup.hint wget http://volkerzell.de/cygwin/ITP/xfig/xfig-3.2.4-7-src.tar.bz2 wget http://volkerzell.de/cygwin/ITP/xfig/xfig-3.2.4-7.tar.bz2 cd xfig-lib wget

Re: [HEADSUP] Start of Cygwin 1.7 release cycle

2008-04-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
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

Re: [HEADSUP] Let's start a Cygwin 1.7 release area

2008-04-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:56:28AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 13 15:35, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 11:42:46AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: We would need to transfer them to the new place or we stick to the Cygnus Solutions for backward compatibility. I'm not

Re: [HEADSUP] Start of Cygwin 1.7 release cycle

2008-04-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
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

Re: [HEADSUP] Start of Cygwin 1.7 release cycle

2008-04-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 05:27:58PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: 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

Re: [HEADSUP] Start of Cygwin 1.7 release cycle

2008-04-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 14 11:42, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 05:27:58PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Oh, hmm, I assumed you would do that anyway at one point. It will be a pain in the neck to do it if people start updating the current cygwin-2 directory while I'm trying to perfect

Re: [HEADSUP] Start of Cygwin 1.7 release cycle

2008-04-14 Thread Andrew Schulman
The most important changes on the user level are the long path name support including UTF-8 character support, as well as IPv6. Other changes are also important, but these two will likely have the most impact. I'd like to ask you to keep an eye especially on them when building and testing.

Re: [HEADSUP] Let's start a Cygwin 1.7 release area

2008-04-14 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Sat, 12 Apr 2008, Brian Dessent wrote: Unresolved issues with this plan: - What are we going to do about text/binary mode? To maintain the setting, setup would have to be taught to parse/write fstab. Ugh. Plan B would be to say that if you want textmode you have to edit fstab

Re: [HEADSUP] Let's start a Cygwin 1.7 release area

2008-04-14 Thread Brian Dessent
Christopher Faylor wrote: Yes, I know. I just don't think it clarifies anything to put a Red Hat in the registry. I was thinking Cygwin would be better as well, but since it is supposed to be a two-level heirarchy how about HK{LM,CU}\Software\Cygwin Project\Cygwin. It has always seemed to me

Re: [HEADSUP] Let's start a Cygwin 1.7 release area

2008-04-14 Thread Brian Dessent
Igor Peshansky wrote: But one thing to consider is that by adding a registry key, we're setting things up for one dominant installation of Cygwin. So people juggling multiple installations really *will* have to go edit the registry to switch -- no more nice mount -m approach, since the

Re: [HEADSUP] Start of Cygwin 1.7 release cycle

2008-04-14 Thread Brian Dessent
Andrew Schulman wrote: (1) Do all packages that include compiled code need to be rebuilt for Cygwin 1.7? IOW, is ABI compatibility broken from 1.5? Also, I presume that there would be no need to rebuild any packages that don't include compiled code, e.g. packages that depend only on Perl