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Re: [Package Update] zsh-4.0.7-1 and test zsh-4.1.1-1
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: "Peter A. Castro" <doctor at fruitbat dot org>
- Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 14:00:53 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: [Package Update] zsh-4.0.7-1 and test zsh-4.1.1-1
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0308281000540.1526@gremlin.fruitbat.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Peter A. Castro wrote:
> [snip]
> One question I have concerning building under 1.5: is it's possible to
> have two separate Cygwin environments on the same machine? Installing
> into two different directories is doable, but the current way of storing
> mount information in the registry doesn't really allow for this. So, how
> does one have both a usable stable and test environment? I'm guessing it
> can't really be done (at least not easily).
Well, you could use user mounts and have 2 users, one running 1.3 and
another 1.5... You'd most likely have to re-login to switch, though...
Igor
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