On 12/08/2011 07:04 AM, Voelker, Bernhard wrote: > Andreas Metzler wrote: > >> 4.4.2 is still the latest stable release. Development versions (4.5.x) >> are available on http://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/findutils/. > > Thank you. Then it's okay. > > But ... "alpha"? > Cygwin is at 4.5.9.
Yes, that is an intentional choice of the cygwin distro to ship an alpha-quality product. Distros are free to pick stability or bleeding edge, according to what they are willing to support, and according to whether bleeding edge fixes issues that the distro packager (aka me for cygwin) is not willing to cherry-pick back into stable. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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