From: fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: cygwin32-b18, coolview, mingw32...
3 Feb 1998 22:24:24 -0800
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To: Samuel James Liddicott <sam AT campbellsci DOT co DOT uk>
Cc: Christopher Seawood <cseawood AT qualcomm DOT com>, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

On 03-Feb-1998, Samuel James Liddicott <sam AT campbellsci DOT co DOT uk> wrote:
> 
> One of the nested registry keys is "b15" not "b18".  I wonder why?  I never
> used b15 at all!

The version numbers in the registry bear no direct relation to the
Cygwin release numbers.  The registery version number is incremented
every time they make a change which breaks backwards binary compatibility,
whereas the release number is incremented every release.

It is very very confusing of them to use "b" in the registry version
numbers, and to make the registry version numbers similar to the
release numbers (much better to start at something completely
different, e.g. 1000).

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