Re: Removal of old versions, and mingw-get
Earnie Boyd <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.devel |
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| Message-ID | <CA+sc5mmzzupeccC6cZ+Hnew70LzKVZYN=-QVnHJ3b4c98bgQZA@mail.gmail.com> |
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 3:48 AM, Erwin Waterlander <waterlan-qWit8jRvyhVmR6Xm/[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > There are now 6 versions of mingw32-dos2unix and msys-dos2unix. Should > we keep all these versions or can we remove the old ones? On Cygwin it > is custom to keep only the previous version, and keep only more if there > are good reasons. > Keep them is the SF mantra. > I also wonder if mingw-get can deal with removal of old versions, if I > would clean up. What happens if I remove old versions (remove tar files > from FILES and cleanup XML catalogue), and users have a local old xml > file? Obviously users have to run "ming-get update". What if they don't > do that? Mingw-get can install a requested older version so the catalogues need to stay. -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_jan