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R: Backward compatibility
- From: Marco Atzeri <marco_atzeri at yahoo dot it>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com, Csaba Raduly <rcsaba at gmail dot com>
- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:34:11 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: R: Backward compatibility
--- Mer 31/3/10, Csaba Raduly ha scritto:
> Hi all,
> I have a program which was compiled under Cygwin 1.5; I ran
> it
> accidentally under 1.7 and it appeared to work. Is this by
> design or
> am I just exceptionally lucky ?
>
> --
By design.
A lot of packages were built for 1.5 and not yet rebuilt for 1.7
Marco
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