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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Important change to symbolic link functionality

On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 06:44:17PM -0700, Warren Young wrote:
>Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>The next version of the Cygwin DLL will have the version number 1.3.0
>>to make unmistakeably clear that there are changes which breaks
>>compatibility with older versions in a more serious manner than before.
>
>Will the DLL name change to, say, cygwin2.dll?  There is a serious
>problem with the DLL name "cygwin1.dll" going clear back to the beta 18
>days, IIRC.  Whenever binary compatibility gets broken, the DLL file
>name should change.

There is no "binary compatibility change".  Cygwin still recognizes the
old symlinks.  It just doesn't create them.

cgf

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