Corinna Vinschen wrote:
after a rather long period of time of development,
Is this going to change for the next major release? There's an awful
lot to absorb in this one.
- No more support for Windows 95/98/Me.
Awesome.
Can you talk about the positive consequences? Obviously there's a lot
of backwards compatibility stuff you can now ignore, and undoubtedly a
lot of compatibility code that you were able to remove. I see some
features in the following list that I suspect were made possible by
this, but it'd be nice to have a list of what we get for being able to
drop this cursed loadstone.
Is Cygwin now significantly faster?
- Mount points are no longer stored in the registry.
Intensely awesome.
Is there anything else in the registry that makes it more difficult to
clone a Cygwin installation than just copying c:\cygwin{-1.7}?
- unlink(2) and rmdir(2) try very hard to remove files/directories even
if they are currently accessed or locked. This is done by utilizing
the hidden recycle bin directories and marking the files for deletion.
Profoundly awesome.
- File locking is now advisory, not mandatory anymore.
Jaw-droppingly awesome.
- Support UTF-8 in console window.
Mind-explodingly awesome.
- Detect and report a missing DLL on process startup.
Exceeding all normal bounds of awesomeness.
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