On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 11:42:16AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: > Hmmm....this is disquieting. Let's assume that Bob has built, on his > machine, the "HandyMedicineDatabase" application which depends on > cygregex.dll. > > He can now no longer install HMD on a new machine, unless he carries > around a copy of the regex package -- or he is forced to recompile his > app so that it doesn't depend on cygregex.dll.
As far as I understood our licensing model, the HMD application is either OSS or it's internally used. Either way, Bob has the sources handy. I don't see a problem. > Perhaps you can release a new regex package that contains only the DLL, > and not the development links. However, this brings up the question: > how long to we need to keep these old DLLs around to support (possible) > user-compiled packages? > > E.g. when can the libreadline4 package be removed? No existing *cygwin* > package depends on it, but user-compiled stuff might... Ditto > "cygregex.dll". I'd think it's your decision for libreadline4. libregex was always just a workaround. Having regex functionality in libc (libcygwin) is what most people (and packages) expect. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
