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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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