From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10660 invoked by alias); 3 Nov 2003 17:46:35 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 10651 invoked from network); 3 Nov 2003 17:46:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO i2kc01-ukbr.domain1.systemhost.net) (217.32.164.137) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 3 Nov 2003 17:46:34 -0000 Received: from i2km95-ukbr.domain1.systemhost.net ([193.113.197.29]) by i2kc01-ukbr.domain1.systemhost.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Mon, 3 Nov 2003 17:46:33 +0000 Received: from i2km38-ukdy.domain1.systemhost.net ([193.113.30.77]) by i2km95-ukbr.domain1.systemhost.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Mon, 3 Nov 2003 17:46:33 +0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6375.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: Multiple cygwins/ Distributing cygwin apps Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 17:46:00 -0000 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Nov 2003 17:46:33.0453 (UTC) FILETIME=[6BA4C1D0:01C3A232] X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg00095.txt.bz2 I think there is a point here, which often applies to those of us with end = user clients to support.=20 It is the client's choice as to which version of any particular software th= ey have installed, not ours to dictate. We might advise that they move to l= atest versions, but they might counter that with arguments such as waiting = for bugs to be fixed and security / compatibility to be fully tested and pr= oven before they migrate.=20=20 Some of our clients might like to keep pace with the latest developments, w= hile others might prefer to stick with the tried and tested versions as lon= g as possible. It's their choice. If we refuse to support anything but late= st versions then we just lose out on most of our work opportunities. The fa= ct that we have to support a software installation which contains an old ve= rsion of something doesn't necessarily mean that the software is currently = distributed with that same old version. It means that it is currently in us= e with the old version, which might have been distributed and installed som= e time ago.=20 Meanwhile, we have to support them - which often involves building a system= for ourselves which mimics theirs in behaviour, and therefore in software = versions too. Some can afford to go to the lengths of dedicating a machine = to each build. My preference is to dedicate one hard drive or partition to = each build. Anyway, the whole point is that those of us involved in third-p= arty support often have to cope with different versions of a piece of softw= are at the same time. There are various ways of achieving this. I just illu= strated one of them.=20 Kevin.=20=20=20 =20=20=20 -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com] Sent: 03 November 2003 16:38 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Multiple cygwins/ Distributing cygwin apps =20=20=20 On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 06:29:17PM -0700, John Moore wrote: >Cygwin is a great tool and it has this really neat installer so I can=20 >keep it up to date. But when a vendor ships a binary, that vendor must=20 >ship a binary Cygwin DLL, and there is no way it is going to match my=20 >latest version. This creates a problem. - Please let us know the vendor who is releasing old versions of the Cygwin DLL. I want to make sure that it complies with the GPL. If it doesn't, our lawyers would like to talk to them. - Newer versions of the cygwin DLL work with older applications. - Newer versions of the cygwin DLL are better at finding other running versions of the dll. - Delete all but the newest version of the DLL and you are all set. - If a vendor is releasing a product which doesn't work right because there is a newer version of cygwin, complain to the vendor. Their installation is busted. -- Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than sending personal email. Special for spam email harvesters: send email to aaaspam@sourceware.org and be permanently blocked from mailing lists at sources.redhat.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/