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Brian Dessent wrote:
>
> The last release of Cygwin was 1.5.19-4 on 2006-01-20, so unless you
> have a time machine, a fix made on 2006-05-17 will not be included. 
> Besides, using the latest snapshot should always be the first thing you
> try when encountering a problem before reporting it to the list.  Nobody
> cares about hearing about bugs that have already been fixed.
>   
-=-=-=-
    Nobody like to hear "oh, it's fixed in the latest build, but
not in the released product." 

    If a developer doesn't think it is good enough to release,
then I'm not sure I want to be testing on my "production" machine.
Not everyone has a spare test machine.

-l


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