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Re: He wrote, then she wrote, ... (was RE: when is next release of setup.exe)
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com, cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 19:17:15 -0500
- Subject: Re: He wrote, then she wrote, ... (was RE: when is next release of setup.exe)
- References: <008f01c2e5cc$32c18e70$1403a8c0@sc.tlinx.org> <00aa01c2e5cd$533a47e0$0400a8c0@robertcollins.net> <003101c2e5ce$51f9e330$78d96f83@pomello> <010101c2e5d0$bef34f10$0400a8c0@robertcollins.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 11:13:43AM +1100, Cygwin (Robert Collins) wrote:
>
>===
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>
>To: "Cygwin (Robert Collins)" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>;
><cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
>Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 10:56 AM
>Subject: Re: He wrote, then she wrote, ... (was RE: when is next release
>of setup.exe)
>
>
>> Cygwin (Robert Collins) wrote:
>> > I'd really have loved to have a new setup
>> > release, oh, 8 months back. And that would compile out of the box
>with
>> > the current gcc. However whats released has been very stable, and
>the
>> > time to finish releasing HEAD keeps getting away from us. HEAD has
>> > lots of incremental improvements - it's the only version I use :}.
>>
>> How about doing a setup-200206 snapshot?
>> I think it's ready, and we really should get that ntsec fix out there.
>>
>> If you are busy, {how do,should} I apply for snapshot upload access?
>
>Ok, snapshots work thusly:
>
>I have a symlink in my home dir called setup-snapshots, which is a link
>to the actual dir for http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots.
>
>To make a snapshot, I use:
>
>make snapshot cygwinsite=rbcollins at cygwin dot com
>
>voila.
>
>So, for you to get snapshot access, ask Chris for
>a) scp upload access
>b) write access to the setup-snapshots directory.
Don't "ask Chris". Go to http://sourceware.org/ and fill out the form
referenced on that page. List rbcollins at sourceware dot org as the approver.
cgf
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