Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <80575AFA5F0DD31197CE00805F650D7602CF71@wilber.adroit.com> From: "Robinow, David" To: Corinna Vinschen Subject: RE: CYGWIN1.DLL Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 12:38:23 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > From: Eric M. Monsler [mailto:emonsler AT beamreachnetworks DOT com] > Subject: Re: CYGWIN1.DLL > One example: I've written a small utility to pass a specialized > message-format between UDP and the PC's serial port. Its distribution > is entirely within our company. > > I currently have both the application and the .dll checked in > to our CM > tools under "utils", so that folks can run it without having cygwin > installed on their PC. > > Only a few of us have cygwin installed, but there is a potential > conflict problem with having two cygwin1.dll files, if the CM'd version > lags or leads the version on any given developer's desktop. Thus far, > the cygwin users here are a) mostly knowledgeable enough to deal with > the issue, and b) few enough that I can support them if the conflict > ocurred. It should be possible to modify 'setup' to handle this. I anticipate needing something like this myself (somewhere between "soon" and "some day". -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/