1.7.1 release date?

[Thomas Wolff]

Christopher Faylor schrieb:
> /etc/termcap ...
> I don't care if people casually peruse it.  That's not a justification
> for keeping it around.
>   
That was only a side aspect. If you prefer to remove it, that's fine. I 
was mainly opposing to leaving a buggy file around.

> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 05:15:48PM +0100, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>   
>> I reported trouble 
>> on one machine recently where I could not install cygwin to a network 
>> drive.
>>     
> And, is this a regression?
>   
Yes, after it failed, I reinstalled 1.5 to the same network drive.

>> Assume just 1% of cygwin users have this trouble and image the 
>> number of complaints...
>>     
> Imagine of 10% of cygwin users started using Windows 7.
>   
I understand the trade-off. An exotic problem reported by one person vs. 
the desire to support Windows 7 soon. Especially since it may be subtle 
to debug, don't wait for it.

> I'm not overly concerned about people installing to network drives.  
To explain the use case: it's a lab network, with user data on the 
network, users may have different PCs each time, and local drives are 
all temporary and often deleted (and even if they weren't I wouldn't 
wish to install N times).
> We can always deal with that later.  No one is claiming that 1.7.1 will be
> perfection.  I believe that it fixes many problems that are in 1.5.25
> (witness the pthread_join deadlock report) and it's about time that it
> went live.
>   
Agreed.

>> I think this (charset/lang) stuff is working quite well now, with one small but significant issue: I had suggested to add set LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 to 
>> cygwin.bat and I'd like to strongly repeat this suggestion as it might 
>> avoid much trouble.
>>     
> The point about releasing something is that, at some point, you have to
> stop making "small but significant" changes and "just do it".
>   
In this case, the change is really small, i.e. trivial, doesn't need any 
further debugging, might have much greater impact if not fixed, and I 
had suggested it some weeks ago already...

Thomas