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Re: Avoid collisions between parallel installations of Cygwin


On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> Having said that, "always use the newest" is still a good idea(*).
>
> (*) Except in rare cases in which some applications chokes on a new
>     Cygwin API behaviour.

I just like to point out that our usage case and application seem to
always force us into those rare cases ;-).

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Brian Ford
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VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
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