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RE: Is the Cygwin 1.3.2 DLL Win 2000 compatible?
- From: David Starks-Browning <starksb at ebi dot ac dot uk>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 08:54:17 +0000
- Subject: RE: Is the Cygwin 1.3.2 DLL Win 2000 compatible?
- References: <4.3.1.2.20020228173048.024373c8@pop.ma.ultranet.com><570DA4A1BC7DD4119AD7000629551498013E10E1@pjmnt11.pjm.com><4.3.1.2.20020301110418.0243f488@pop.ma.ultranet.com>
On Friday 1 Mar 02, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) writes:
> Perhaps. It's an esoteric one. The original poster of this question wanted
> to know if Cygwin 1.3.2 would work with Win2000. I replied with the FAQ
> entry that says Cygwin works with 9x/Me/NT/W2K/XP. The reply I got back
> from the poster then was that he had seen this entry but thought it
> referenced only the current Cygwin DLL (1.3.9 at that point). So the only
> question I was raising was whether you think it would be more or less
> confusing to people to add some wording to the FAQ entry that specifies
> that any recent Cygwin DLL works with Windows, not just the latest.
> It's not clear to me that this additional wording wouldn't raise more
> questions than it answers. Judging by your response, I think leaving things
> as is may be the best option. What do you think?
I think it's best to leave this entry as it is.
Thanks,
David
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