From: noer@cygnus.com (Geoffrey Noer) Subject: Re: Why is cygwin.dll? 22 Jan 1997 08:03:17 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199701221228.EAA19670.cygnus.gnu-win32@rtl.cygnus.com> Content-Type: text Original-To: mjo@mrao.cam.ac.uk (Martin Oldfield) Original-Cc: loki@maison-otaku.net, s2172184@cse.unsw.edu.au, M.Carter@gcal.ac.uk, gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-Reply-To: from "Martin Oldfield" at Jan 16, 97 01:31:00 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Length: 548 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Martin Oldfield wrote: > > What happens if we change the name of cygwin.dll to include a (major) > version number ? Then people can keep cygwin1.dll, cygwin2.dll, &c on > their machine and run both old and new executables without any > problems. I have thought of this before and am still considering doing something like this. Of course, if we never make any future incompatible changes to the cygwin.dll that invalidate old executables, this won't be necessary but of course I would never promise that. :-) -- Geoffrey Noer noer@cygnus.com - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".