From: noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer) Subject: Re: bash-2.x 24 Jul 1998 09:13:52 -0700 Message-ID: <19980724031128.B22642.cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com> References: <199807230858 DOT KAA03131 AT digicash DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen , yodl AT icce DOT rug DOT nl Cc: "ir. Wendy" , gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 10:58:13AM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: [...] > What about 'if you choose to use beta software, you suffer?' And why > is cygnus distributing a beta shell with gnu-windows? My installed copy of the b19 release includes bash 2.01.1, not a beta of bash 2.02. In any case, we have called the GNU-Win32 net releases themselves "betas" so far. As long as that is the case, I would have no problem including a stable beta version of bash. 202 fixes numorous problems (including the one where control-C kills backgrounded applications which is my favorite fix). It is possible that we will drop the beta designation on the GNU-Win32 net releases at some point. I have been putting that off, waiting until we believe that Cygwin32 fully conforms to POSIX.1, some performance improvements are made, etc... But I suppose that's not entirely necessary. I tend to view the majority of software packages (including Windows 95) as really being "beta" quality but I may be overly paranoid... -- Geoffrey Noer noer AT cygnus DOT com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".