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Re: Bug fix and enchantment[*] in cygpath.cc

On May 17 13:20, Dave Korn wrote:
>   Anyone who wants to try
> and fix a problem in 1.5.24 (for reasons of supporting some current
> installation) by building from CVS *needs to know* to be on the branch, and
> anyone who wants to work on 1.7 needs to know to be on mainline.
> 
>   So is it at least the case that cr-0x5f1 and HEAD are /all/ that anyone
> needs to know about?

Yes.  However, if nothing really serious happens(*), the cr-0x5f1 branch
will not get any more updates, and there won't be any more 1.5.x
release.  Everything new or improved should only go into CVS HEAD.
Therefore, usually CVS HEAD is the only branch the public needs to care
about.


Corinna

(*) like, say, the 1.5.24 version needs a year 2038 fix.

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