R: Backward compatibility

[Marco Atzeri]

--- Mer 31/3/10, Csaba Raduly  ha scritto:

> Hi all,
> I have a program which was compiled under Cygwin 1.5; I ran
> it
> accidentally under 1.7 and it appeared to work. Is this by
> design or
> am I just exceptionally lucky ?
> 
> -- 

By design. 
A lot of packages were built for 1.5 and not yet rebuilt for 1.7


Marco






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