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Re: Help! Need B.20.1 src
On Sat, 2005-22-01 at 20:06 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 08:00:00PM -0500, John Mellor wrote:
> >On Sat, 2005-22-01 at 18:44 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 05:23:41PM -0500, John Mellor wrote:
> >> >I'm looking for the source for the cygwin1.dll b.20.1.19 version, put
> >> >out in 1999. The CVS tree on the RedHat site only goes back 4 years,
> >> >and I guess they just threw everything before that in the bit bucket.
> >> >Anybody got a copy, or know where I can get it?
> >
> >> How about humoring us and telling us why you think you need this.
> >
> >Some time ago, I built a package that links in this DLL that somebody
> >found useful, and now actually wants to pay me for. Having to put food
> >on the table, I'd like to oblige them. Rather than upgrading to the
> >latest-and-greatest, and all the work involved in changing APIs, etc., I
> >just want to ship the one that I've got, seeing as it works perfectly
> >well.
>
> Thanks for satisfying my curiousity.
>
> We go to quite some effort to make sure that nothing changed from B20
> until now, so you should just be able to send your customer the latest
> cygwin DLL + sources without resorting to finding an almost six year
> old version of cygwin1.dll. There is no need to change APIs.
>
> >Any idea where I can get it now?
>
> Nope. I wrote all of the warnings on the home page at
> http://cygwin.com/ :
>
> "The last Bxx release was in December 1998. The Bxx releases are no
> longer available. In fact, older versions of the DLL or utilities are
> not usually available on this web site. Any cygwin program built from
> December 1998 onward should work correctly with newer DLLs."
Thanks for the quick reply! I'll try running it with the latest dll
underneatch instead of the original one, just to make sure nothing got
unintentionally broken. If that solves my problem, cool. Thanks!
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