On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 09:59:03AM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: >> . . . > > Funny how you're saying "We" as if you are actually contributing > anything other than criticism. >
I started a thread, at one point, to ask about a newer version of git. I offered to try to create a build, if it would help, even though while I have over a decade of experience in the software industry I have no experience as a Cygwin package maintainer. I also found that Steven Penny had offered, six months or a year before my thread, to build it. Adam Dinwoodie stepped up and offered to take over as maintainer. He got a build out in short order, but there was a glitch in either the cygwin dll or in openssl, I forget which, that caused long-running git clones to fail. Once that was fixed, everything seemed to be working except for something with git-cvs. I've never used git-cvs, and haven't used CVS since early 2009, so I didn't know how I could help with testing or resolving that issue. If I could have, I would have. I continued to use Adam's git build of 1.8.5.2 for the next couple of months, but it slowly started to bother me more and more that I was using a beta build. I didn't want to go back to git 1.7.9 because that version is well over two years old now (although, admittedly, I never had trouble with it). So I installed the native Windows git (msysgit) 1.9.2 from git-scm.org. It took a bit of configuring to get it to play nice with Cygwin. I need git because all my company's projects are in git (nearly; a few stragglers are still using svn). I wish there was a Cygwin build that was, say, a year old or less. (I still have one problem, that occasionally when it runs an external tool, it uses its msys bash which doesn't understand SHELLOPTS=igncr, which I need because of some stupid \r characters in the shell scripts of npm from nodejs.) I love Cygwin. I've been a happy user for years. Cygwin bash makes using Windows tolerable, which makes my life better. I deeply appreciate everything you all do, and I know that you're volunteers. I have no claim on your time, or your effort. If I have to build a few things myself, or use another version, I can do that. But it does look like some people have tried to help. I'm sorry I wasn't able to be of more help. There's no need for a reply to this. If you read this far, then thank you for your time, and thank you for all you do. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
