Mail Archives: cygwin/1998/07/31/15:34:00
At 12:13 AM 7/29/98 +0000, Geoffrey Noer wrote:
>> Im curious what features will be in the next version of Cygnus and when
>> it's due? I seem to recall someone saying, when x returns from Holiday,
>> but that was a while ago ..
>>
>> Heres my wishlist:
>> Complete with egcs
>> Upto date tools :)
>> Paths stored in registry for cygnus and egcs
>> and so on ..
>
>I don't have a firm feature list yet or a date. That said, we are
>aiming to make a new release as soon as it makes sense. We're in the
>middle of Cygwin32 performance optimizations right now so we are
>waiting until Cygwin32 is well-tested again and ready for another
>release. Windows 98 support will be present. Hopefully, EGCS 1.1
>will be included as the compiler. I will let everyone know when we
>know more.
>I am looking into upgrading sed to 3.01 but I don't expect that it
>will make that big of a difference in configure times. (Hopefully
>I'm wrong). Linux has the advantage that I/O appears to be much
>faster on ext2 partitions. If you compare Linux running on a fat
>filesystem to NT on the same, a lot of the performance difference goes
>away...
Great, can't wait.
Also, how about ...
More X libraries (native X support)
Better documentation.
Not that i've used ming, but how about including that too, so we have all
of these packages in 1 big bundle? And also a bigger cygnus tools package?
Out of curisoity too, (yes im always curious) do you guys work on it full
time?
And how many hands are there?
D
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