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RE: Gee, everyone, thanks for the support
- From: "Chris January" <chris at atomice dot net>
- To: <cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 20:03:59 +0100
- Subject: RE: Gee, everyone, thanks for the support
> > >> You know, I really could care less about this damn WINVER
> thing except
> > >> for the fact that I think that w32api developers are being
> inconsistent.
> > >
> > >I don't even care that much. What annoys me is the [temporary] breakage
> > >to cygwin - which is where the bug report was raised in the
> first place.
> > >
> > >JM2c.
> >
> > Good point. Earnie, since you're a member of cygwin-developers, why did
> > you allow this to happen?
> >
>
> Christopher January was the person who made the original change.
>
> Christopher Faylor accepted that change.
>
> Someone reported a regression w.r.t. the change.
>
> I checked the MSDN and properly guarded the change as required.
Just to weigh in here, if you're going to go with Microsoft on the guard,
then I think it is only consistent to go with Microsoft on the value of
WINVER as well.
Chris