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Re: Multiple cygwin installs: I have to do it, but how?
I'm still using the dinorsaur, B20.
The registry is stored in a different place.
Current cygwin : --Software--Cygnus Solusions--Cygwin
B20 : --Software--Cygnus Solusions--CYGWIN.DLL
I just installed both, and have no problem at all.
No conflicts.
JB Lee
----- Original Message -----
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>
To: Robert Collins <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>
Cc: Peter Buckley <peter.buckley@cportcorp.com>; <cygwin@cygwin.com>; <RCUNNINGHAM@redlake.com>
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 9:52 AM
Subject: Re: Multiple cygwin installs: I have to do it, but how?
> Back to earth:
>
> folks, we're talking about a product that is still using B19 for
> gawsakes. ANY solution we come up with is NOT very likely to be adopted
> by vendors that are FOUR YEARS behind.
>
> Honestly, given that we're dealing with a dinosaur, I think the best --
> and only -- solution is for users stuck with these archaic dists to
> 1) push the vendors to update their products to work with modern
> cygwins. To encourage them to develop packaging/installation methods
> for their products that are compatible with "normal" packages in the
> "net release" model.
> 2) failing that, or in the meantime, these poor users should "swap
> out" using batch files that update the registry and path settings
> appropriate for different "sandboxes". This is ugly, hackish, and a
> giant PITA -- but it's better than immense performance losses engendered
> by other suggestions.
>
> That fact is, I'm not motivated to hack up the kernel in ugly ways, just
> to help users of products from independent^Wincompetent software vendors
> who refuse to modernize. Those ISVs deserve to lose customers. Harsh?
> Maybe so -- but I'm a volunteer, not an employee.
>
> --Chuck
>
>
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