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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Important change to symbolic link functionality
- To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Important change to symbolic link functionality
- From: Warren Young <warren at etr-usa dot com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 18:44:17 -0700
- Organization: -ENOENT
- References: <20010221232921.X908@cygbert.vinschen.de>
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.
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