Achim wrote:
> Cygwin, for better or worse, is a rolling distribution.
> If that doesn't suit your needs...
Please, I was no way complaining or attacking. To the contrary: cygwin is a
superb platform, excellently supported. To which I can atest: i have been
utterly dependent on it for 20 year
KARL BOTTS writes:
> Are cygwin packages being pushed to mirrors still compatible with
> cygwin-2.11.2, now that cygwin-3 has entered the release pipeline?
Cygwin, for better or worse, is a rolling distribution. If that doesn't
suit your needs, you'll have to come up with your own mechanism to lo
On 3/4/2019 7:05 AM, KARL BOTTS wrote:
> So: Assume for the moment that the latest git package release on the mirrors,
> has been built against cygwin-3 base. Am I reasonably safe to assume it will
> still work with cygwin-2.11.2? Does this generalize to all, or at least most,
> other packages?
On Mon, 04 Mar 2019 06:05:52, "KARL BOTTS" wrote:
But now and then I need to upgrade a specific package outside of my full
cygwin update cycle. E.g., right now I would like to upgrade just git.
So: Assume for the moment that the latest git package release on the mirrors,
has been built against
Are cygwin packages being pushed to mirrors still compatible with
cygwin-2.11.2, now that cygwin-3 has entered the release pipeline?
I have several machines set up with cygwin. (It is a pretty minimal subset:
no X, no apache, no big database servers, etc: just basic command line tools.)
I try
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