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RE: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution
- From: "Dave Korn" <dk at artimi dot com>
- To: "'whoops kerplunk where's my thribble?'" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 10:23:17 +0100
- Subject: RE: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution
- Reply-to: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-talk-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski
> Sent: 06 October 2004 06:19
> > current release tree. Make some sort of ISO available or
> something, and
> > think up a name other to call it than just "Cygwin" (like,
> I don't know
> > "Yggdrasil StableCygwin 1.0" or "Roman Catholic StableCygwin 1.0"--I
> > highly recommend using some unique word for Internet searching).
>
> Yggdrasil is good. And we could call the unstable
> distribution Ratatosk.
> :-)
Surely it should be Ragnarok?
> > [snip]
> > You could start your own mailing lists for people using
> your "John Kerry
> > StableCygwin 1.0" and perhaps segment our traffic a little.
>
> Hmm, then the unstable distribution would be... Ug, no,
> we're not giving
> it *that* name. No way! ;-)
That wouldn't just be unstable, that'd be positively unhinged!
cheers,
DaveK
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