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: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 11:38:28 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Multiple cygwins/ Distributing cygwin apps Message-ID: <20031103163828.GA15719@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/1.4.1i Note-from-DJ: This may be spam On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 06:29:17PM -0700, John Moore wrote: >Cygwin is a great tool and it has this really neat installer so I can >keep it up to date. But when a vendor ships a binary, that vendor must >ship a binary Cygwin DLL, and there is no way it is going to match my >latest version. This creates a problem. - Please let us know the vendor who is releasing old versions of the Cygwin DLL. I want to make sure that it complies with the GPL. If it doesn't, our lawyers would like to talk to them. - Newer versions of the cygwin DLL work with older applications. - Newer versions of the cygwin DLL are better at finding other running versions of the dll. - Delete all but the newest version of the DLL and you are all set. - If a vendor is releasing a product which doesn't work right because there is a newer version of cygwin, complain to the vendor. Their installation is busted. -- Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than sending personal email. Special for spam email harvesters: send email to aaaspam@sourceware.org and be permanently blocked from mailing lists at sources.redhat.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/