On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 02:53:36PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
Corinna wrote:
Here are the questions.
- Does anything speak against the idea of the patch?
- Does anybody see a problem with the patch?
- Anything else?
I think it's great. I have found it SO useful to have both a cygwin-1.5
and a cygwin-1.7 tree installed (e.g. when I break my 1.7 tree I can fix
it using familiar cygwin tools from the 1.5 installation, rather than
cmd.exe or explorer) -- and I've been able to do that because the
1.5/1.7 versions *mostly* don't interfere.
But, two things to remember: 1) You're an experienced user and 2) We're
talking about two different releases.
Corinna is talking about allowing any 3PP-cygwin-containing package to
calmly coexist with with an official cygwin release. That means that it
is possible for a naive user to be very confused about which version of
cygwin they're running.
I have more to say about the subject but I don't have the time to say it
right now.