Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/03/13/13:46:01
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 AT 11:23:34AM -0600, wayne wrote:
> >On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 AT 11:53:28AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 AT 09:48:33AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >> ><http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC> ;-)
> >> > Igor
> >>
> >> Agh, no. This isn't a PTC situation.
> >>
> >> Requiring specific cygwin releases is not a path we want to go down.
> >> How many times does it have to be said? The cygwin1.dll name doesn't
> >> change because it is supposed to always *work*. If you require a
> >> specific release you're making a mistake.
> >I already have a issue with the latest release that is why I mentioned
> >it.
>
> Sure. Ok. So you stabilize on a version of cygwin for your company.
> That's fine. I don't see that as a justification for allowing all
> previous versions of cygwin to be installed.
>
> If there was a different release model where we could be insured of
> having all packages working together that would be different. That's
> not the we we're doing things in cygwin, though. You can argue that
> we're doing things wrong but it would certainly be confusing to allow
> the installation of cygwin 1.3.1 along with the latest version of ssh
> which doesn't work with 1.3.1.
>
> We already have that problem with the 'prev' version of cygwin but at
> least that's fairly manageable. Allowing 27 different varieties of the
> DLL just doesn't seem like it would be a win. I can easily envision the
> "why doesn't ssh work with 1.3.1?" messages here.
>
> I'm sure that what you're doing is essentially doing a standard "release"
> for your own internal release. You've come up with a set of packages
> and a cygwin DLL which works nicely together. That's fine. I just don't
> think that this is something we want to support in setup, in general.
> cgf
Well, technically, it's already supported through custom setup.ini files.
So it's not a PTC situation after all. :-)
Igor
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