On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 12:31:34PM -0400, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: >Dolton Tony AB wrote: >>I've noticed that bash doesn't get issued too often. >It doesn't for three reasons: >1. the maintainer for Cygwin (that would be me) is very busy >2. The current version of Bash is very, very stable >3. I'm hesitant (reluctant, even) to let a new release of Bash go out > the door without proper testing, even if it does fix a bug reported > on this list every-so-often - i.e. I don't jump on every patch to > apply it tout-de-suite and send out a new release: there's too much > that depends on Bash.. That, and reason #1..
These are all excellent reasons (especially 2 and 3), FWIW. Bash is such a crucial part of the release that it pays to be cautious. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
