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Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:18:04 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: YA call for snapshot testing
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On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 08:45:58AM -0800, Hans Horn wrote:
>On 1/19/2012 2:06 PM, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
>> On 19 January 2012 14:52, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> Corinna and I think that we're coming close to achieving stability for
>>> a new release so we'd like you to try the most recent snapshot at:
>>>
>>> http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
>>>
>>> Please reports variations from 1.7.9, including "Hey! It's a lot faster
>>> than 1.7.9!" as well as the usual bug reports.
>>
>> I've been running the 2012-01-11 snapshot since it was released with no issues.
>>
>> Thank you for all the hard work!
>>
>> Chris
>>
>
>ditto!
>
>Said snapshot appears to be the "best" cygwin I'd installed for many months.
>Bash starts up noticeably faster.
>No random "fork", "bad address" etc errors anymore when when building 
>large projects.
>Kudos to all that made it happen.

Thanks for the positive feedback.  It looks like if we can fix Yaakov's problem
we may be ready to ship.

cgf

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