# HG changeset patch # User wenzelm # Date 1335189918 -7200 # Node ID 1c9c498ed4f1b887f6be82b4d6b586d618cdbbd0 # Parent 89a90da149a9fa44755916fef8bfae3c642dd5bd more notes on Cygwin, notably for downgrading to 1.7.9 to avoid multi-threading instabilities starting with 1.7.10 early 2012; diff -r 89a90da149a9 -r 1c9c498ed4f1 Admin/Cygwin/README --- a/Admin/Cygwin/README Mon Apr 23 13:40:02 2012 +0200 +++ b/Admin/Cygwin/README Mon Apr 23 16:05:18 2012 +0200 @@ -7,3 +7,16 @@ * http://chinese-watercolor.com/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html +* Cygwin crash of Poly/ML 5.4.0, 5.4.1 with threads (and sockets?) +http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-04/msg00415.html +http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-04/msg00417.html + +* Mirror with many old versions (not setup.init!) + http://ftp.eq.uc.pt/software/pc/prog/cygwin + +* Time machine for older versions: + http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/index.html#cygwincirca + + e.g. ftp://www.fruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/2012/02/04/034515/setup.ini + for last 1.7.9 version +