Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 15:09:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Matt Zagni cc: Max Bowsher , Subject: Re: [cygwin] historic builds In-Reply-To: <01c801c27b89$30840690$78d96f83@pomello> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Max Bowsher wrote: > Matt Zagni wrote: > > > Is there a sever where you can obtain old versions > > of cygwin (2 - 3 months) ? > > No. Why? > Max. Yes. The source is in CVS, and there are instructions on how to access it on the cygwin.com page. All released versions are appropriately tagged. CVS will let you check out tagged revisions, and you can build them yourself. Max, One may want an older version to compare behavior or performance, for example, or to see whether (or why) some package that doesn't work in the current version worked in an older one. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Water molecules expand as they grow warmer" (C) Popular Science, Oct'02, p.51 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/