On 3/4/2019 7:05 AM, KARL BOTTS wrote: > So: Assume for the moment that the latest git package release on the mirrors, > has been built against cygwin-3 base. Am I reasonably safe to assume it will > still work with cygwin-2.11.2? Does this generalize to all, or at least most, > other packages?
There's no general rule. cygwin-3.0.0 introduced some new APIs. Newly built packages may or may not make use of these. If they do, they won't work with an earlier version of cygwin. Ken
