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Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Important change to symbolic link functionality
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Well the ABI is not changing. Linked applications will still run
correctly. I don't think there is any need to break all the linked
applications because the format of any new symlinks will not work if you
downgrade again....

Rob



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Warren Young [mailto:warren AT etr-usa DOT com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 12:44 PM
> To: Corinna Vinschen
> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Important change to symbolic link
> functionality
> 
> 
> 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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