RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 22

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

> IMHO your behaviour is contra-productive, since AFAIK all 
> Cygwin DLLs will
> have now a cyg prefix instead of lib. 

I am not going into any more discussion.  If you read the mail list from
last week.
Chris Faylor mentioned "cyg prefix is considered depricated...."  So ARE ALL
THE DLLs
are going to CYG  PREFIX?  I guess NOT.


Suhaib


>The binutils maintainer 
> has applied
> this path officially to the package, so the cygz.dll *is* the official
> Cygwin version and there is no other around. This was done due to
> incompatibilities with MS-DOS versions of this DLL named also 
> libz.dll in
> various non-Cygwin ports (and therefore is not a forked 
> version). *If* the
> server is a Cygwin app it *should* use cygz.dll.
> 
> You may have a look at the real long discussion on this topic 
> searching the
> Cygwin mailing list.
> 
> Don't ge me wrong, I don't wanna start any flame war. I just 
> wanna prevent
> that the Cygwin xfree package will start to become incompatible to the
> standard Cygwin package - at least as far as I understand the topic.
> 
> Greetings,
> Jörg
>