-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Joe Smith on 12/14/2005 8:43 PM: > Well, path 2.5.9 is available from an official gnu server, but is in a > very strange place: > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/ > diffutils? in the main archive it is in its own directory!
Yes, because the diffutils project is trying to incorporate patch in order to share code (remember when sh-utils, fileutils, and textutils joined to make coreutils?). > > Also from what i can tell: > Nothing from ftp://alpha.gnu.org is or has ever been offical. > It houses development snapshots. > > Note that the above may be incorect, but it is the best I am able to > figure out. Yes, projects on alpha.gnu.org are considered development releases, but they are often good enough to use. For example, if you are using cygwin right now, you are either using coreutils 5.3.0 (only published on alpha.gnu.org), or the stable coreutils 5.93 but a cygwin snapshot; either way, you have a development release on your machine. So, if patch 2.5.9 provides functionality that makes life on cygwin easier, then the patch maintainer should decide whether to upgrade to a development release version. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDoW1u84KuGfSFAYARAhdQAKCww9isNH1nPvmkv4YXf6SIW1ELsgCgykyP c3NPVe0a7jfQ9pqTCnzlAvU= =83IO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/
