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Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:

>> which, honestly, isn't very much. I'd be concerned about all those
>> tcl-db${old_version} packages -- but it looks like there are no
>> in-distro users of them.  That leaves gdb, ruby, python, git, and parrot
>> -- all of which have active maintainers.  Plus suite3270 and brltty,
>> which I'm not sure about.
> 
> I see no plausible way to transition other than a simultaneous release
> of all these packages.

  Could we conceivably do coexistence by bringing in the new properly
cygwinized versions at version 8.5 and keep the current 8.4 DLLs and
/usr/share files around for backward compat?

    cheers,
      DaveK

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