Can upset handle more than one prev: tag?

[Max Bowsher]

Reini Urban wrote:
> Shouldn't we then provide a cygperl5_8.dll symlinked to cygperl5_8_5.dll
> also (in linux fashion), and apps should link against cygperl5_8.dll
> resp. a more generic libperl.dll.a then?
> otherwise you'll have to recompile all dependent apps.

You are forgetting something. The Windows runtime linker (understandably) 
doesn't understand Cygwin symlinks. From what I've heard, perl tries to stay 
ABI-compatible throughout x.y.*, so the DLL should be named cygperl5_8.dll

Max.