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From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Cygwin-3 and the Bleeding Edge
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 16:29:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ca259e9-8b3a-993c-06af-e1b08346f194@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <152XcDme12976Set.1551701152@web13.cms.usa.net>

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On 3/4/2019 7:05 AM, KARL BOTTS wrote:
> So:  Assume for the moment that the latest git package release on the mirrors,
> has been built against cygwin-3 base.  Am I reasonably safe to assume it will
> still work with cygwin-2.11.2?  Does this generalize to all, or at least most,
> other packages?

There's no general rule.  cygwin-3.0.0 introduced some new APIs.  Newly 
built packages may or may not make use of these.  If they do, they won't 
work with an earlier version of cygwin.

Ken
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-03-05 16:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-04 12:06 KARL BOTTS
2019-03-04 13:11 ` Steven Penny
2019-03-05 16:29 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2019-03-05 19:09 ` Achim Gratz
2019-03-06  0:11 KARL BOTTS

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