On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 03:20:56PM -0600, Chuck Irvine wrote: >I see that I've caused you some concern. Let me be more specific. Not >being familiar with Cygwin "snapshots", I was tending to equate the term >with what might go by the name "daily builds" in other projects. Folks >are often warned that these are less stable then the "current stable >release" and that care should be exercised.
Your understanding is correct. However as we converge on a new release, the snapshots do become more stable. And, sometimes, as for the last few months, we do enter periods of instability in cygwin where snapshots are consistently better than the last release. The recent period of instability is due to my efforts to implement multi-threaded signal handling into cygwin. This was done for a Red Hat contract (even though I still ended up doing this basically for gratis in my "spare time"). The need for development hit during a time when there were also some other destabilizing changes in the cygwin code base. In a perfect world, I would have spaced out the releases to give each bit of new functionality time to settle down. Unfortunately events did not allow this. Anyway, the most recent snapshots should be better than 1.5.7. There are still a couple of reported problems but I don't think there are any real regressions in functionality. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
