On Jan 15 18:51, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > However, why does a bump from 5.x to 5.y require a rebuild of other > > packages? Is the perl stuff backward incompatible from one minor > > version to the other?!? > > Anything linked against the Perl DLL must be rebuilt.
Still, why? Is it real backward incompat, or just due to DLL versioning? Does DLL versioning really make sense here? Usually, if the new DLL is only providing new stuff but not breaking backward compat, we're not bumping the DLL version. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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