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 Message-ID: <41E9B859.8040102@isonews2.com> Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 19:42:01 -0500 From: Arturus Magi Reply-To: sailorleo@isonews2.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin Subject: Re: Multiple installations and 3PPs References: <1105721403.28030.53.camel@localhost> <20050114171548.GB6227@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <1105726072.28030.78.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1105726072.28030.78.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Adrian Cox wrote: > So what are the other problems? Programs picking up the wrong version of the DLL and failing with little or no explanation available to the user (whom will, likely as not, fail to provide a useful report to the developer, if they bother to report it at all), for one. Alot of problems with pure-Windows programs result from Win32 not globally forcing this one-copy policy itself. -- 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/