Bump version to 1.5.0

[Earnie Boyd]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 04:40:42PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> 
>>FYI, I bootstrapped msys tools by modifying the cygwin1.dll in the 
>>binary executable.  So, it's conceivable to postinstall a sed script 
>>that would modify the dll name with caveats of new functionality not 
>>supported.
> 
> 
> I used to do this all of the time in B19 days back when the DLL name
> changed with each release.  That's changed now.  It was quite a battle
> to get it changed, too (cgf bows).
> 

Clap, clap, clap ... loud applause. :)  Yes, it was a good thing.

> The problem in this scenario is that just about every structure has changed
> now.  stat, FILE, passwd, etc.  Changing the name of the DLL will just cause
> most executables to crash.
> 

I think I realized this after typing and pressing send.  But what about

 > I can also see the possibility for 32/64 bit versions for each new
 > release with 32bit versions using libcygwin1.a while 64bit versions
 > using libcygwin2.a.  An arbitrary date would be set to remove support
 > for a 32bit versions.

Earnie.