On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 05:27:58PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Apr 14 10:39, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 03:11:56PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >Hi all, >> > >> >we're now finally starting the release cycle for Cygwin 1.7. Not >> >everything is in it's place, some changes are still in flux and the >> >installation is still somewhat bumpy but we should get to all of that >> >while testing goes on. >> > >> >We have set up a new release area which is dedicated to the 1.7 release. >> >> I was hoping to get a little more feedback on using the union fs before >> we announce this. >> >> I'd like to use the mechanism that I mentioned since it would be the >> most transparent for package maintainers. In keeping with the >> full-steam approach I guess I'll put it into place today. > >Oh, hmm, I assumed you would do that anyway at one point.
It will be a pain in the neck to do it if people start updating the current cygwin-2 directory while I'm trying to perfect the unionfs version. >I'm just a bit surprised that the resulting purged directory is still >that big. Yes, well, er, there was a pretty serious bug in my purge script on the order of "How could that have possibly done anything right?" variety. Looks like I have to start from scratch and do the purge again. Sigh. cgf