X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4D2778AE.8000408@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 13:33:50 -0700 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101209 Fedora/3.1.7-0.35.b3pre.fc14 Lightning/1.0b3pre Mnenhy/0.8.3 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: What version of cygwin is considered stable on Windows 7? References: <562602 DOT 77179 DOT qm AT web30802 DOT mail DOT mud DOT yahoo DOT com> In-Reply-To: <562602.77179.qm@web30802.mail.mud.yahoo.com> OpenPGP: url=http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigE3D188CBD7D3987D49E6228F" X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 --------------enigE3D188CBD7D3987D49E6228F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 01/07/2011 01:12 PM, Larry W. Virden wrote: > When considering building a basically "frozen" version of cygwin - that i= s to=20 > say, downloading, configuring, and building a disk image, then turning th= at disk=20 > image into a MSI for installation purposes (in an environment where this = is=20 > being done because users will not have Windows 7 permissions to perform= =20 > additional setup or package manipulations), what version of cygwin should= be=20 > considered stable for developer use? The environment expects to use cygw= in/x ,=20 > bash, and a variety of commonly used "unix-like" applications (awk, perl,= wc,=20 > cat, make, java, ...). >=20 > Certainly each alpha and beta release contains bug fixes and enhancements= that=20 > might be useful for the developer to have. However, in at least this sho= p,=20 > there isn't enough time available for software integrators to update the= =20 > installation image daily and push it out. Instead, there is typically a = point=20 > in time in which a project is created which draws a line, picks the recom= mended=20 > release at that point, bundles things up, and then, in the future as prob= lems or=20 > features demand, a new project is proposed, scheduled, staffed, and execu= ted for=20 > creating a new release. >=20 > Is cygwin 1.7.6 considered stable for use on 32 bit Windows 7? Or do we n= eed to=20 > drop back farther? Cygwin is pretty much a moving target, by its very nature as an open source collection; but each release (1.7.6, 1.7.7 are the most recent, and 1.7.8 isn't too far off) represents points where the main cygwin1.dll was thought to be stable. But that doesn't include the level of where all the other packages were at. And the advice from this list is generally more focused on the latest release - as volunteers, we don't have time to support a large set of prior releases, and instead focus on the latest. If you're that worried about stability, you may want to consider buying a support contract, to help offload the stability issues out of your shop and onto the folks at Red Hat, and where support for prior versions is taken more seriously by nature of the support contract: http://www.redhat.com/services/custom/cygwin/ --=20 Eric Blake eblake AT redhat DOT com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org --------------enigE3D188CBD7D3987D49E6228F Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public key at http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJNJ3iuAAoJEKeha0olJ0NqhkYH/3TdGl9kV09qur2+jFLN91Gv VYX2uO4pedrYjRVvcmxnS0FVzGYv8M/J8ZoS1mvH2qHQw2bW5tOBjukpmpCMeJTZ RUc+O8O7IDxyFBSegwIjDsHbhlFa2SGm+jBsUVYYNyD/CNntZ9p8oHtdMfWUkdZE XnSOKDelqi4uR2uDpEggg59J8icwWXSmIoEGJdC0fBADmLosFNyck9UD0TXS3dxE aZ4ZcBuynWG3BQXfAicSb7G00eAray+SnR+BgR+yIKC3ZrhP2bWCbQiW+1RQWsTM G93xra+n4hJb01dNK/gssLbVGMvqbLDXAm3PnZhSGGlbHuz1FwGZMinQz8cp0JI= =S3Dm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigE3D188CBD7D3987D49E6228F--