Achim wrote:
> Cygwin, for better or worse, is a rolling distribution. > If that doesn't suit your needs... Please, I was no way complaining or attacking. To the contrary: cygwin is a superb platform, excellently supported. To which I can atest: i have been utterly dependent on it for 20 years. I wish Microsoft could support complex software systems as well as the cygwin team does. Corinna, in particular, is a hero to me: she runs a taught ship. I was just asking for info. Which Achim supplied well: > You need to keep the dependency chain ordered so that all > dependencies of the package to be installed are older than the package > itself. While setup now supports versioned dependencies in principle, > this is not currently used, so you'll have to do this via other means. Fine. Makes sense. I can do that. And again, thank you all for decades of great work. --- Karl Botts, kdbo...@usa.net -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
