4.3.0 Cygwin 1.3.x build and packaging nearly done

Harold L Hunt II huntharo@msu.edu
Fri Aug 1 04:43:00 GMT 2003


I have completed the building and packaging of a 4.3.0 XFree86 release 
for Cygwin 1.3.x.  However, I am not sure that I will be uploading this 
release, as I intend to make a new build for Cygwin 1.5.1 and hold onto 
it until Cygwin 1.5.1 is released.

In any case, I have at least gotten used to the packaging system again 
and I have worked out the little details like leaving the font package 
version numbers untouched so that new downloaders will get the new fonts 
but updaters won't be forced to get the new fonts (which are essentially 
the same as the old ones, I hope).


So, my question for the community is whether anyone wants me to post the 
4.3.0 release as the new "stable" release and make another build for 
Cygwin 1.5.1 and post that as the "test" release.  Or, would everyone 
rather that I wait and just make the 1.5.1 version the new "stable" 
release when 1.5.1 is done?

I kind of like the idea of making a 4.3.0 Cygwin 1.3.x release, since 
that will allow us to identify which new bugs (and there will always be 
new bugs) are caused by XFree86 4.3.0 and which are caused by Cygwin 
1.5.1.  Well, what do you all think?


Harold



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