CAUTION: A word about replacing the Cygwin1.dll

Wed May 23 12:40:00 GMT 2001

Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> I've noticed several occurrences of "After I replaced cygwin1.dll by the
> old version everything was worked again."
>> I just want to caution you that just replacing the cygwin1.dll may cause
> you problems when building other packages as the glue that supports the
> cygwin1.dll API may have also changed. 

Why doesn't the DLL name change when the ABI breaks?
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