On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > This allows us to test the new Cygwin DLL in a complete distro > environment without breaking the standard release. This standard > release will get frozen at one point, when we think it's safe enough to > switch the community to the new distro. The old one stays available for > Windows 95/98/Me users. So far the new release area is a copy of the > existing one. To access it, you have to use a special setup.exe version > you get from http://cygwin.com/setup-1.7.exe > >
I was / am very happy to see this available. I frequently run in to the path / filename too long error. I downloaded this version of setup and when I run it (I have tested it against 5 or 6 different mirrors), it fails on 99% complete. The setup dialog shows that it is Downloading _update-info-dir-00743-1.tar.bz2. Is there anything I can do to get past this point? Thanks Troy