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Re: Gee, everyone, thanks for the support


Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 02:21:11AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> >On Sat, 2002-09-07 at 01:07, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> You know, I really could care less about this damn WINVER thing except
> >> for the fact that I think that w32api developers are being inconsistent.
> >
> >I don't even care that much. What annoys me is the [temporary] breakage
> >to cygwin - which is where the bug report was raised in the first place.
> >
> >JM2c.
> 
> Good point.  Earnie, since you're a member of cygwin-developers, why did
> you allow this to happen?
> 

Christopher January was the person who made the original change.

Christopher Faylor accepted that change.

Someone reported a regression w.r.t. the change.

I checked the MSDN and properly guarded the change as required.

> If you are not able to build cygwin to test your changes then you probably
> shouldn't be on this list.
> 

Perhaps cgf needs to check the MSDN before making changes to the
w32api.  Perhaps cgf needs a vacation.  Perhaps cgf needs to check his
blood pressure.  ...

Earnie.


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