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- From: "Charles Wilson" <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>
- To: "cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com" <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:39:12 -0400
- Subject: â The library or libraries will be delivered in compiled form, and will have been compiled using the GNU compiler for VxWorks-6.2. The library or libraries will be suitable for use within a VxWorks-6.2 Real Time Process (RTP); it or they will not be sui
Ken Brown said:
> But it does seem that the release of 1.7 is a good time to ...
You know, folks, at some point we need to stop saying "1.7 is a good
time to <make massive change X>" and just release it. We already have
the following "backwards incompatible" [*] changes
1) dropping support for Win9x
2) no longer launch native programs from long or virtual CWDs (before,
IIRC cygwin-1.5 would 'fake' the CWD as c:/ or something)
3) wide char support (and various existing changes related to LANG
settings in console and other terminal sessions)
4) removal of registry usage / new mount table
5) old signal mask support removed (probably doesn't actually affect
anyone)
6) [possible] switch to gcc4 as official compiler (with associated
deliberate ABI breakage *without* DLL version number bumps -- see
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2009-04/msg00034.html). It's pretty
clear this will happen *eventually*. Whether it happens
before/on/soon-after the 1.7 rollout is still TBD.
[*] for some definition of "backwards incompatible". Mostly, I'm not
listing strict improvements, but only things whose behavior has changed
in a way that either explicitly breaks old programs or might be
surprising to a naive user. I'm sure I've missed some items.
Each time we say "1.7 is a good time to..." and pull the trigger, it's
another month of stabilization. During that month somebody ELSE has a
bright idea about yet another thing "1.7 would be a good time to...".
This is not good.
--
Chuck