Patches for setup HEAD

2008-07-23 Thread Ralph Hempel
I've updated the following three patches to make them apply cleanly against setup-2.599 6689-goossens-rev1-rh.patch 6688-switch-p-rh.patch 854-peschko-cmdlines-rh.patch I've also attached a series that can be used withe quilt to manage application and removal of the patches: Please note that

RE: [setup] Extra files under source control

2008-07-23 Thread Dave Korn
Charles Wilson wrote on 23 July 2008 03:01: Charles Wilson wrote: Brian Dessent wrote: Charles Wilson wrote: which are under source control in the setup repository really should /not/ be stored in CVS. They are regenerated every time you run doconfigure, anyway. It makes sense to not

Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

2008-07-23 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Corinna Vinschen wrote: | When 1.7 goes gold, the idea is to install over an 1.5 install. Or not. | It's the choice of the user. Installing over 1.5 is supported by the | base-cygwin package, which is supposed to convert the registry mount |

Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2

2008-07-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 23 12:25, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: | When 1.7 goes gold, the idea is to install over an 1.5 install. Or not. | It's the choice of the user. The advantage of starting fresh with 1.7 would allow us to dump a lot of obsolete packages from the distro [...]

Re: Patches for setup HEAD

2008-07-23 Thread Ralph Hempel
Ralph Hempel wrote: I've updated the following three patches to make them apply cleanly against setup-2.599 They also apply cleanly on setup-2.592-1.7special... Ralph

[RFC] 1.7 Packaging: Obsolete packages

2008-07-23 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 As we start preparing for 1.7, I know that until now the focus has been on the development of Cygwin itself. I'll admit that I know little about Cygwin's internals, and hence have contributed very little to the DLL itself, but I do very much

[RFC] 1.7 Packaging: Toolchain

2008-07-23 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I would like to make some proposals as to setting up the development toolchain for 1.7: 1) binutils Thanks to cgf, we've got a current binutils available now; I'm not sure if binutils itself benefits from 1.7 (save the long path handling). There