X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: Long filename support, soon? Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 07:39:35 -0800 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: From: "Stepp, Charles" To: "Adam Thompson" , Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id m26FeYLD005667 I like doing c, ksh, perl, tcl/expect and (don't laugh) forth; are there any things left laying around I can fiddle with? Charles Stepp Meskimen's Law: There's never time to do it rite, but there's always time to do it over. -----Original Message----- From: Adam Thompson [mailto:adwulf@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 5:54 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Long filename support, soon? On 06/03/2008, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > It is one of the many enhancements in the forthcoming 1.7 series. And > it seems it is also an excruciatingly large task. There is no timetable > for 1.7 as a result. But many hands make light work. If you and others > you know have hands to lend, I know Corinna has a list of tasks that can > use them. > Is this list published anywhere? I'm not a developer (unless you're porting to Sinclair ZX BASIC), but perhaps there are some tasks that us sysadmin/support/doco people can help with? -- AdamT There's no onion in these onion rings. Only disappointment, despair and shattered dreams. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/