[PATCH] Added Kazuhiro's new wchar functions to cygwin.din

[Nicholas Wourms]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:

>On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 09:46:50AM -0400, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
>
>>I'd like to voice a small objection to this practice of adding and then 
>>removing symbols, especially given the quantity in this case and the 
>>period of time which lapsed inbetween.  I don't think this practice 
>>should be encouraged at all because it can be quite a PITA if you have 
>>apps which were compiled when the symbols were exported.  I think this 
>>goes double for "cosmetic" issues which are going to be fixed anyhow in 
>>the near future.  I'm trying to help Conrad test the cygserver, so I 
>>have many apps I'm using for testing purposes.  I am now going to have 
>>to recompile the ones I just compiled the other day due to this change. 
>>
>
>That's the reason I copy only the new built DLL to my "Cygwin test and
>native build system", and *not* the libcygwin.a.  This way, I link always
>against the symbols available in the latest stable release and not
>against symbols only available in the developers snapshot (except I
>really, really want it).
>
I guess in retrospect I should have taken this approach.  The only 
reason I hadn't in the past is because I thought Chuck's statements 
represented the "party-line" of this project.  Oh well, live and learn.

Cheers,
Nicholas