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Re: HEADSUP package maintainers: Welcome to cygwin 1.5.0
- From: Brian Ford <ford at vss dot fsi dot com>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 10:40:53 -0500 (CDT)
- Subject: Re: HEADSUP package maintainers: Welcome to cygwin 1.5.0
Moved from cygwin-apps to here. I assume it probably ends with this
message, though.
For those who are interested, the history is here:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-07/msg00052.html
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 21:32:55 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 04:31:25PM -0500, Brian Ford wrote:
>
>>If these were translated via the headers at compile time, then new
>>executables with old libraries might have a better chance at working,
>>each in their own 32 or 64 bit world, but together.
>>
>The old libraries wouldn't magically understand the larger structures
>that new executables need regardless of whether we're talking about
>link or compile time.
>
Yes, you cut out my disclaimer about that below.
>>Obviously, they still couldn't pass the types that changed sizes between
>>them, though.
>>
>Anyway, we're not going to redesign everything now.
>
I understand. That was the reason for this disclaimer.
>>Sorry, I should have asked about this back on cygwin-developers, but I
>>wasn't thinking that hard about it then.
>
I thought I might have had an idea to further ease the transition period.
I would have been willing to work up a simple patch if you were
interested. Oh, well.
--
Brian Ford
Senior Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
Phone: 314-551-8460
Fax: 314-551-8444