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On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 5:22 AM, Corinna Vinschen
<corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
> On Mar  6 17:39, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>  > Adam Thompson wrote:
>  >> On 06/03/2008, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
>  >> wrote:
>  >>> It is one of the many enhancements in the forthcoming 1.7 series.  And
>  >>>  it seems it is also an excruciatingly large task.  There is no timetable
>  >>>  for 1.7 as a result.  But many hands make light work.  If you and others
>  >>>  you know have hands to lend, I know Corinna has a list of tasks that can
>  >>>  use them.
>  >>>
>  >> Is this list published anywhere?
>  >> I'm not a developer (unless you're porting to Sinclair ZX BASIC), but
>  >> perhaps there are some tasks that us sysadmin/support/doco people can
>  >> help with?
>  >
>  > I remember a list of tasks being sent to this list by Corrina but I can't
>
>   s/rrin/rinn/
>
>  That list was send to the developer's ML.
>
>
>  > put my finger on it right now.  As I recall, these were all development
>  > tasks.  Corrina would be the best one to say if there are specific tasks
>  > in the areas you mentioned.
>
>  I'm going to check in my changes today, which will really enable using
>  long pathnames for the first time.  it can now access and create long
>  paths, as well as start applications stored in long paths.
>
>  However, it's certainly still buggy and missing features.  I'll follow
>  up with what is done and what's not done on the developer's list.
>
>  For the curious and the brave, the next developer's snapshot from
>  http://cygwin.com/snapshots will be something to test.
>
>
>  Corinna
>
>  --
>  Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
>  Cygwin Project Co-Leader          cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>  Red Hat


Wow, that's great.  Here I am being a pain about it, and it looks like
it's getting close to landing.  I just want to say that I appreciate
all of your hard work on cygwin.  I don't think I could use Windows
without it! :)

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