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> I think it would be entirely reasonable to record the version you
> built against as the minimum requirement, as you couldn't be expected
> to test against older libraries as well. Wanting to use latest Unison
> with an old Cygwin DLL is a case of having your cake and eating it,
> it's just that it would be good if setup.exe was able to point that
> out. But, in another bakery-related metaphor, this is pie-in-the-sky.

I don't know, it seems half-baked to me :)


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