Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:51:11 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: How do I get an old version of cygwin? Message-ID: <20050118145111.GA27316@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <41EC4604 DOT 5010908 AT singlestep DOT com> <1106037711 DOT 7522 DOT 26 DOT camel AT localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1106037711.7522.26.camel@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 08:41:51AM +0000, Adrian Cox wrote: >On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 15:11 -0800, James M. Rogers wrote: >>My company has a small program that we use to pull data from files on >>multiple OSes. >> >>We use the latest version of cygwin on our own internal computers to >>run under windows systems and this works fine. >> >>However, one of our clients has an old version of cygwin that uses the >>1.5.4 DLL. This is a DLL on a production box over which we have no >>control. The client themselves just installs the product from another >>vendor and it just works. This is not a full version of the cygwin >>install. There are no build tools on this box. > >Have you considered building a custom version of the latest Cygwin, and >putting it on their box in a different directory? Trying to solve this >sort of problem is unpopular on this list, but my initial research >suggests that changing the values of CYGWIN_VERSION_DLL_IDENTIFIER and >CYGWIN_INFO_CYGNUS_REGISTRY_NAME should do the job. You really shouldn't be giving out advice to people without understanding what the problems are. You don't even know why this person needs to hve an older version of cygwin. Immediately jumping to the conclusion that they just need to mess with things in the source and recompile is not good advice. However, you have pinpointed exactly why the "problem is unpopular". The "problem" is usually advanced by people with no clear understanding about what is going on who have jumped to the conclusion that the solution to their problem is to keep multiple versions on their computer. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/