X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Hans Horn Subject: Re: YA call for snapshot testing Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 08:45:58 -0800 Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <20120119195244.GA763@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20120118 Thunderbird/10.0 In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 On 1/19/2012 2:06 PM, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: > On 19 January 2012 14:52, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> Corinna and I think that we're coming close to achieving stability for >> a new release so we'd like you to try the most recent snapshot at: >> >> http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ >> >> Please reports variations from 1.7.9, including "Hey! It's a lot faster >> than 1.7.9!" as well as the usual bug reports. > > I've been running the 2012-01-11 snapshot since it was released with no issues. > > Thank you for all the hard work! > > Chris > ditto! Said snapshot appears to be the "best" cygwin I'd installed for many months. Bash starts up noticeably faster. No random "fork", "bad address" etc errors anymore when when building large projects. Kudos to all that made it happen. H. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple