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On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 08:37:43AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote: >--- DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote: >> >> > IMHO, it is, any cygwin-app that is updated now, will have to have >> > the updated cygwin1.dll. What other changes are you thinking of? >> >> We bump the middle number when the converse is true - when updating >> the DLL means you *must* update the cygwin apps also. >> >> All we're doing with this change is the same thing we've been doing >> with all our other changes - adding functionality. This means that >> apps built for the new DLL won't work with older DLLs. >> >> If we change or remove functionality, *then* we bump the middle >> number, because apps build for the old DLL won't work with the new >> DLL. It's only when backward compatibility is broken do we have to >> worry about migration. > >Ok. But, IMO, we need a 1.1.4 before this modification so that we can take >advantage of Corinna's patches for the speed issues of ntsec. Then 1.1.5 will >contain this modification. The new DLL still handles old binaries so I don't think there is any reason to hold off. cgf
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