X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <44E91EE8.7090809@cygwin.com> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 22:48:08 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060112 Fedora/1.5-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Those nasty bundled Cygwin's References: <87bqqffkxl.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> In-Reply-To: <87bqqffkxl.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Eric Hanchrow wrote: > I installed the FreeNX Windows client (http://freenx.berlios.de/), > hoping to access my server machine remotely. I didn't know it at the > time, but the Windows client includes a Cygwin DLL -- and it clobbered > by existing Cygwin installation, somehow (I forget the details -- I > think it modified important registry settings). > > Clearly FreeNX's documentation is lacking, in that it didn't warn me > about this. > > But I was wondering -- how _is_ a vendor such as FreeNX supposed to > distribute software that depends on Cygwin? How can they avoid having > their own, separate, Cygwin installation on the user's machine? > This has also been discussed before. If you'd like to understand the options, I'd recommend reviewing the email archives for threads on this issue. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/