When considering building a basically "frozen" version of cygwin - that is to say, downloading, configuring, and building a disk image, then turning that disk image into a MSI for installation purposes (in an environment where this is being done because users will not have Windows 7 permissions to perform additional setup or package manipulations), what version of cygwin should be considered stable for developer use? The environment expects to use cygwin/x , bash, and a variety of commonly used "unix-like" applications (awk, perl, wc, cat, make, java, ...).
Certainly each alpha and beta release contains bug fixes and enhancements that might be useful for the developer to have. However, in at least this shop, there isn't enough time available for software integrators to update the installation image daily and push it out. Instead, there is typically a point in time in which a project is created which draws a line, picks the recommended release at that point, bundles things up, and then, in the future as problems or features demand, a new project is proposed, scheduled, staffed, and executed for creating a new release. Is cygwin 1.7.6 considered stable for use on 32 bit Windows 7? Or do we need to drop back farther? -- Tcl - It's the real thing. http://wiki.tcl.tk/ http://www.facebook.com/lvirden/ Anything in this posting represents only my personal opinion. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple