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From: "Robinow, David" <drobinow AT dayton DOT adroit DOT com>
To: cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
Subject: RE: RFC: linux compatibility
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 18:03:56 -0400
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> > My biggest concern is backwards compatibility.
> > Is it worth Linux compatibility if it means "cygwin2.dll"?
> 
> The timezone API is the biggest problem here, and the most visible.
> Changing that might break compatibility all by itself.  I haven't
> checked into the whole story enough to know for sure.  I agree
> backward compatibility is an important goal.
 I'm not sure "cygwin2.dll" would be such a horrible idea.
 At the cost of a little disk space you could support two versions
without the "you've got two copies of cygwin1.dll" problem.
 Think of all the posters to this list who've said something like

 " I installed the latest cygwin release and it broke <name of
critical system here>.  I've been tearing my hair out for 3 days.
Finally I went back to old faithful B18.  [You guys suck!]"

 These people could simply keep a cygwin1.dll around to run
critical apps while at their leisure fixing whatever config
problems they have.

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