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Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 17:58:02 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: 1.5.10 release?
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On Sun, 28 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 10:18:58PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> >On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 07:10:25AM -0700, "E. Weddington" wrote:
> >> On 26 Mar 2004 at 9:45, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Mar 25 15:17, E. Weddington wrote:
> >> > > Just wondering, is there a tentative release schedule for cygwin 1.5.10? Say,
> >> > > sometime within the next week?
> >> >
> >> > It's scheduled for 2004.
> >> >
> >>
> >> I was beginning to wonder if it was going to be dragged out to 2005, 2006, or whatever. Since
> >> others were reporting such fine grained control of installing Cygwin, such as "gee, look, I can
> >> install 1.5.9 with bugs, OR go back to 1.5.5", now I'm thinking that I really don't need to wait for
> >> 1.5.10.....
> >>
> >> Thanks ;-)
> >
> >WADR to CGF's hard work, I can tell you even before it is released that
> >1.5.10 has bugs.  So do 1.5.11, 1.5.12, etc.  With a software project of
> >sufficient size, it's a given.  The question is, do the bugs bite *you*?
> >Have you tried 1.5.9?  If you had problems with it, have you tried a
> >snapshot to see if those problems are resolved?
>
> How dare you imply that cygwin has bugs?
>
> I'm sending this email from cygwin right now and I

Now that's why we have all those acronyms[*] for Cygwin -- so that you can
type the e-mail quickly and send it off before hitting one of those...
	Igor
[*] <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/> for the uninitiated.
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