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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 18:44:17 -0700
From: Warren Young <warren AT etr-usa DOT com>
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To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Important change to symbolic link functionality
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> The next version of the Cygwin DLL will have the version number
> 1.3.0 to make unmistakeably clear that there are changes which
> breaks compatibility with older versions in a more serious
> manner than before.

Will the DLL name change to, say, cygwin2.dll?  There is a serious
problem with the DLL name "cygwin1.dll" going clear back to the beta 18
days, IIRC.  Whenever binary compatibility gets broken, the DLL file
name should change.

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