Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 19:16:14 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: RE: Big Brother is Real Message-ID: <20030404001614.GA21725@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 04:12:24PM -0800, Stephan Mueller wrote: >Speaking only for myself, and not my employer (because I don't know what >he thinks) I can only say that from everyone I've met, and everything I >do know, it appears to me that API changes are always made with >backwards compatibility in mind, and the goal is never to break existing >apps -- indeed, the efforts made to remain compatible with existing apps >are astounding. Given how stupid tricks that were developed on Windows NT3.5 (or earlier) continue to work on Windows 95, Windows 98, W2K, Windows NT4.0, and Windows XP. I think I can testify to that effort. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/