From: noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject: Re: cygwin32-b18, coolview, mingw32...
10 Feb 1998 21:42:41 -0800
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To: fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU (Fergus Henderson)
Cc: sam AT campbellsci DOT co DOT uk, cseawood AT qualcomm DOT com, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

Fergus Henderson wrote:
[...]
> 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).

Yep, I agree completely.  Is it worth invalidating prior mount points
just to change the version string though?  I'm not convinced it is.
Next time we do need to change the registry in an incompatible way,
I will definitely remove the "b" from the registry version string.

Sorry for the confusion...

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Geoffrey Noer
noer AT cygnus DOT com
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