Public Cygwin 1.7 test starts today

Thu Dec 11 00:42:00 GMT 2008

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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