Mail Archives: cygwin/2012/08/19/18:05:48
Hi Christopher,
That answers my question well enough.
Thank you, and again great work on cygwin.
Devin
On Aug 19, 2012, at 2:56 PM, "Christopher Faylor" wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 07:28:31PM +0000, Devin Nate wrote:
>> Yeah, we won't be forking a new version... We'll either go commercial
>> via Red Hat or select a 1.7.x version that works for us. We want to be
>> part if the effort and contribute as such.
>>
>> The real spirit of my question was this.... We develop software
>> ourselves, and sometimes we put out a "stable / production" version
>> which we know has more unproven features, or has undergone some major
>> refactoring, and inspite of QA and testing and we expect more bugs. At
>> other times, we know that we've got a stable release and it's proven to
>> work well.
>>
>> The spirit of my question "which version do you like" was in that
>> light. I follow the cygwin list, and constantly see reports of bugs
>> and fixes, and use this snapshot or that... Great work for sure. It's
>> hard for me to evaluate when the bugs are minor, or, where there has
>> been a major refactoring and all the bugs are getting worked out.
>
> I'm not sure if you're still fishing for Corinna or me to give you a
> recommendation but I'm not going to do that. I really don't have a
> ready answer and the question is too open-ended to be useful even if I
> did. "Stable" might mean different things depending on what you're
> doing. If you have a long-running build then maybe there is a bug in
> the current version which will cause a problem. But, if you are
> primarily interested in making sure a network connection stays up then
> maybe the latest version is the one you want. Or, maybe you're
> accessing files from a new version of Samba. In that case you also
> probably want the newest version.
>
> We do fix bugs constantly so, in general, the latest released version
> should always be better than the previous version. And, since it is
> possible that we might add a new function or two to a new release,
> you'll want to be using the latest if you ever want to upgrade the
> version of ssh, bash, or associated dlls. Otherwise, the newer binaries
> won't work.
>
> cgf
>
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