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Subject: Re: Errors compiling cdrtools under cygwin 1.5.19
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On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 06:46:31PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
>The only care that really could be taken to prevent things like this
>is more users testing pre-release versions.  Development snapshots of
>cygwin with getline() have been available for a long time now.  Note
>that this isn't just addressed to you; if package maintainers heeded
>the "release coming soon, please test a snapshot" messages cgf sends
>out by testing that their packages build and run with the snapshot,
>there'd be less scope for problems.

Thank you, for making this point Yitzchak! Can I get two gold stars for
over here?

I should point out that I didn't rebuild my packages under 1.5.19 either
so I'm just as guilty as any other package maintainer in this regard.

cgf

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