On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 07:16:14PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 04:12:24PM -0800, Stephan Mueller wrote: >>Speaking only for myself, and not my employer (because I don't know what >>he thinks) I can only say that from everyone I've met, and everything I >>do know, it appears to me that API changes are always made with >>backwards compatibility in mind, and the goal is never to break existing >>apps -- indeed, the efforts made to remain compatible with existing apps >>are astounding. > >Given how stupid tricks that were developed on Windows NT3.5 (or >earlier) continue to work on Windows 95, Windows 98, W2K, Windows NT4.0, >and Windows XP. I think I can testify to that effort.
...and by stupid tricks, I mean stupid tricks used in cygwin, of course... cgf -- 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/
