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Re: Unique DLL name per release...
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Unique DLL name per release...
- From: cgf at bbc dot com (Christopher Faylor)
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 17:20:34 GMT
- Organization: Boston Business Computing, Ltd.
- References: <199802112152.OAA19744@sedona.intel.com>
- Reply-To: cgf at bbc dot com
In article <199802112152.OAA19744@sedona.intel.com>,
Jason V. Robertson <jvrobert@sedona.intel.com> wrote:
>We are going to be possibly using multiple versions of the cygwin32
>release, and we're thinking about adding a version number to the DLL to
>easily allow this.
>
>Is there any problem with this, and why isn't this done on the default
>release?
Multiple versions are already allowed in the coolview release (which is
essentially a snapshot of the upcoming B19 release). The shared
information uses a key which is based on the time of compilation so,
theoretically, you should be able to have different versions of cygwin
in use at the same time.
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VMS=>UNIX Solutions Boston Business Computing the real can be."
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