Obtaining a pervious version

[John Williams]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> The sources available for download are for 1.3.2.  The differences are
> below.  Basically, it seems like they made a few changes without really
> thinking too hard about what they did.  So, the cygwin mount table will
> be found in another registry entry but it will end up in the same shared
> memory region.
> 
> Reading further in the thread, I see that there was an accommodation of
> sorts.  I want to point out that it should be possible to build any
> of the tools that you're using under cygwin.  IMO, that's the best
> solution to this.
> 
> In fact, it should be possible to just binary edit the tools and change
> the 'xygwin1.dll' to 'cygwin1.dll'.  Then you can just get rid of the
> xygwin1.dll crap entirely.

Thanks for that - I'll pass it on to the developers.  I expect they'd 
probably rather focus on supporting their tools anyway, instead of a 
non-standard compatibility layer.

Cheers,

John



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