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Re: Experimental changes in the new snapshot
On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 09:55:29AM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
>> 3) Detects when the DLL is run from a non-compatible version of
>> a previous DLL and aborts with an error message.
>
>Is there any way to treat it like a non-cygwin parent, so that the
>program runs with reduced functionality rather than aborting?
We could easily do this but I felt that that would lead to people
reporting additional problems where they forgot to mention that
they were getting a warning when they were attempting to run some
applications.
The bottom line is that if someone has two incompatible versions of
a DLL in their path then they are really asking for trouble.
cgf