X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:date:from:to:subject:message-id:reply-to :references:mime-version:content-type:in-reply-to; q=dns; s= default; b=oSmsFiVL0i0dLIhdmFjse9pSyFc9tyfp6pNdjghXFVFYEGxOLjgmp UTrN//R3f2Y/1dF7l5+DpbTmTDZfHH9ufQIkU/AhyZWiGSWTi2Jxn9HOfjbcIldM SmwhjfCuS0lAsATXchRW+19baxpOT0qiXjfnmaxP+hgvOrb7EQmrZM= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:date:from:to:subject:message-id:reply-to :references:mime-version:content-type:in-reply-to; s=default; bh=muPoOf/xtwuijfbL0OOLUWUOTQ0=; b=ekjuj9VHUhiPAeN+EhpwNJyLZpTf aMDvPEiP6osv7hKogetumfq8B+8k1ys7AfXPw+MNh9R7HANInwAcMUMgnMMsCWZP 6nQVe8aRDBTI97OgXS0k03vq9V97cWsXImFZWwh3UpHS1K/854YRY1AhfAW1dFOq zIN9dS7ArSayQ2E= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-5.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: calimero.vinschen.de Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 11:21:58 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: windows-default-manifest-6.3-1 Message-ID: <20140625092158.GN1803@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <53AA8F9E DOT 7030205 AT gmail DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="YIleam+9adpUeYf+" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <53AA8F9E.7030205@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) --YIleam+9adpUeYf+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Jun 25 11:00, Marco Atzeri wrote: >=20 > On 25/06/2014 10:12, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >Hi folks, > > > > > >I just uploaded windows-default-manifest-6.3-1. > > > >This new package contains nothing but a default application > >compatibility manifest, which gets linked in by GCC by default, and > >which is supposed to claim compatibility with the latest Windows > >versions available at the time. > > > >Adding such a manifest got necessary due to a change in Windows 8.1. On > >earlier OS versions, applications without manifest were treated as > >compatible with the current OS. Starting with Windows 8.1, an > >executable without manifest is treated as being compatible only with the > >oldest supported OS version of the OS compatibility layer. > > > >That means, all applications without manifest are running in a Window > >Vista compatibility layer on Windows 8.1. This affects all Cygwin > >executables to date. By adding the default manifest to newly built > >packages, we're slowly getting to run our executables with full OS > >compatibility. >=20 > Does this mean we should rebuilt all the application to > make W8.1 happy ? >=20 > Grrr .... My reaction exactly, when I first read about this issue! No, you don't have to rebuild your packages. You can do that if you like, but it's not pressing, so it's ok if the next packages will pick this up. Also, thanks to Microsoft we'll be behind every time a new Windows version is released. We can't just rebuild the entire distro every time. Did you read the comments in the 2nd link I sent with my announcement? There are more unhappy devs... Corinna --=20 Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat --YIleam+9adpUeYf+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTqpS2AAoJEPU2Bp2uRE+giIYP/0ZuwY7/R8VFlJjJDcY2H1k3 FYb9+Nkr0Aul+IT+KgJGdp2lBuA8id6fuUt5scfomUVzDCsRU0NxOfFOREBIU5Cx 3X+jEN/L3vOxx2Vu3d/zUqGKir0sSyQPbAjf+aLIplhM91+gzx/jyRkwXRzIk5zk a1C6J91JKkORQVgvdwqLXhEU834YwnW5+zyL33wetxz3XJWeZbNj+Fe40T644ZdP Mv2iYNcHYUDtodsTU+rCB1O40mV7+Om2ziSPM5TaMms0+FhTWjthQOFLbSORbxnY gp1Jr+VzAYfOGrzQYTWBgoULIdFeRsnjPO6I4y2lX0KanmGrpFK1OMqBCzc+Vot0 HTM11yodKLMOquOnkdp5HugcRGd4VWgqfiKEKtg2Fb9SfVqnFovlExxnfGhuCwBY JEyWDNX952vGZB+bph9HNqC7M3i83cZ6MfO4D+/H5aP5SG8+B9oMXs/vkM8bS18P +ALlHMvNmIEGIKUvPPKYjAuRrr80Tc6A8o9sHLmMtmvdDDwlJCK8lFMKuMHef26C AO8L+/+Q0pRAMN6YtNUEH4ZzwHQ9mN/fAgwqk8fgboDLPAg13eXasuNluDg/uTiG nPq0KB8FD3oug+b2XTM9GFL17f40vv+/bEnVHKlClKYe0kywQvF6C39G+961d/KV 0FCUYkSsXoRpwkQIaEJ0 =b1sm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YIleam+9adpUeYf+--