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Subject: RE: Source distribution problem with core library
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:41:00 -0400
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From: "Don Porges" <dporges AT chipwrights DOT com>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com 
> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 1:34 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: Source distribution problem with core library
> 
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:39:19PM -0400, Don Porges wrote:
> >I think that the installable source tar.gz file of 
> cygwin-1.5.25-15 is 
> >not what it's supposed to be.
> >
> >I installed the latest (non-cvs) source using setup.exe, 
> which got me 
> >cygwin-1.5.25-15-src.tar.bz2.  The specific source file that I care 
> >about right now is winsup/cygwin/path.cc.  By comparing it 
> to the cvs 
> >repsository, I can see that the file in the tarball must be 
> at least 2 
> >years old.  (The function I was looking at is 
> conv_path_list(), and the 
> >change that might address my problem was made in 1.414, in August of 
> >2006; it's not in the released source file.)  The 
> copywrights seem to 
> >have been kept up-to-date in the cvs version; the one in the 
> tarball is 
> >labeled no later than 2006.
> >
> >Futhermore, the winsup/cygwin directory in the tarball has Changelog 
> >files only up through 2005; no 2006 or 2007. The current 
> Changelog with
> >2008 fixes is there.  The repository has the files for 2006 
> and 2007. 
> >So something seems wrong.  I also looked at 1.5.25-14; same story.  
> >(And I looked on more than one mirror site, just to be sure.)
> 
> Extracted from cygwin-1.5.25-15/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog in 
> the cygwin-1.5.25-15-src.tar.bz2
> file:
> 
> 2008-06-12  Corinna Vinschen  <corinna...>
> 
>         * fhandler_console.cc (fhandler_console::open): Set 
> console state last.
>         Only add ENABLE_PROCESSED_INPUT flag if this is the 
> first time we open
>         the console.
> 
> 2008-04-17  Corinna Vinschen  <corinna...>
> 
>         * dtable.cc (dtable::init_std_file_from_handle): Fix 
> pipe related test.
> 
> 
> The cygwin source tarball is correct.  There is no guarantee 
> that what you see in CVS will match what is released.  The 
> CVS trunk is where active cygwin 1.7.x development is going 
> on.  1.5.25 is generated on a separate branch entirely and 
> sees very little development.
> 
> cgf

Thanks -- I didn't realize about the branching.

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