From:	noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject:	Re: Why is cygwin.dll?
22 Jan 1997 08:03:17 -0800 :
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Original-To:	mjo AT mrao DOT cam DOT ac DOT uk (Martin Oldfield)
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In-Reply-To:	<m0vkrv5-000AcLC@joanna.robinson.cam.ac.uk> from "Martin Oldfield" at Jan 16, 97 01:31:00 pm
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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.  :-)

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Geoffrey Noer
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