Eric Blake wrote: > why is it needed? Cygwin's > stdint.h has had all the necessary types for several releases > now, and people compiling against older versions are > encouraged to upgrade their cygwin installation, rather > than propagating workarounds in other packages.
You can say the same thing about all systems. "People are encouraged to upgrade their Linux/AIX/... installation." Admittedly, with Cygwin you probably don't need to support the releases of the last 10 years, as we do with Solaris and Linux. (Because Cygwin features an installer with easy upgrades, and upgrading doesn't require repartitioning, rebooting etc.) But supporting a Cygwin from ca. 2 years ago is better than not supporting it - it will save bug reports. Bruno
