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From: Matt <matt AT use DOT net>
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To: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
cc: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com,
        cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: next net release preliminary info
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Date: 	Wed, 26 Jan 2000 14:29:01 -0800

On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Chris Faylor wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 03:27:43PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
> >
> >> This is good too.  I would like to see the things common to each package,
> >> things like readline, intl, etc. moved to this level and removed from the
> >> package for the sake of the cygwin distributions as well.  This would cut down
> >> on the size of each package but would require managing dependencies
> >> differently.
> >
> >But, the officially released packages each have different versions of
> >these common things.  What then?
> 
> Hmm.  When I hear dependencies, I think Makefile.
> 
> How about a "make install" for the binary packages?

How much time will we be given to test the full package before it's
released? I'd like a week to hammer on it, myself.

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