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Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 18:31:28 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: rsync package version in Cygwin
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Herman Poon wrote:

> I'm wondering why the release of rsync that is in the current Cygwin
> setup is only 2.6.3, when 2.6.4 was released on March 30, 2005 and
> 2.6.5 was released on June 1, 2005. Rsync is even at 2.6.6pre1 now (I
> got the announcement today via rsync-announce).
> 
> I'm not "complaining" per se since I realize that Cygwin is
> community-driven by (mostly? all?) unpaid contributors, but rather
> curious as to why there continues to be a lag in the release. In fact,
> unless I'm going crazy (which could very well be the case) I thought
> that Cygwin included rsync 2.6.4 at some point but has since gone back
> to 2.6.3.
> 
> Can anyone please shed some light on this issue? Who is the rsync
> package maintainer (if there is one, even unofficially) for the Cygwin
> project? Thanks very much.

The maintainer is Lapo Luchini.  This can be seen from the
announcements:
<http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=cygwin-announce&w=4&r=1&s=rsync&q=b>.

You would have to ask him why the Cygwin package is a little behind, but
I would imagine it's just because of lack of free time.  That said,
being 3 months behind an upstream release is not really that long of a
time period, especially if people's lives get busy.

Brian

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