On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 10:58:18PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: > >Actually, I think this is a neat idea. I tried to do something like it > >for personal use about 18 months ago -- I wanted a one-time snapshot of > >the cygwin-1.3.x baseline just prior to the 1.5.x transition. > > > >But I waited too long (e.g. after packages which required 1.5.x had > >"polluted" the server), and couldn't untangle "what was old/what was > >new" well enough for my taste. So I gave up. > > > >Your mechanism is much better. I, too, hope you don't regret it. :-) > > While I think it is a nifty idea too (I actually used this yesterday), I > suspect that we'll all have some heartburn over this as people stumble > onto it, try to "update" their distro to older versions and end up with > bloody stumps where their feet used to be.
Well, I do warn people not taunting Happy-Fun Ball :) Seriously, the "time machine" should be used prudently. I am beefing up the doc (which no-one ever reads, right? :) to try and head off as many problems as possible. Knowledge is power. And, I humbly offer free antacids and bandages to everyone on the list who suffers at the hands (feet?) of the time machine. > However, because I'm a masochist, I'm wondering if it wouldn't be a good > idea to advertise this as "cygwin news" on the front page of > http://cygwin.com/. Gosh, Chris, I'm flattered you'd consider it news worthy (well, flattered, shocked, amazed and confused...no, wait, "confused" is my normal state of being :). Obviously it's up to you all. > Also, (oh boy, what fun!) it would be nice if snapshots were archived, too. Hmm... I think I can do that too. Lemme look into it. > cgf -- Peter A. Castro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Cats are just autistic Dogs" -- Dr. Tony Attwood -- 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/
