X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:01:47 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.5 / 1.7 setup.exe entanglement? Message-ID: <20090122170147.GD19154@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <49779B20.9060905@etr-usa.com> <20090122111211.GA17948@calimero.vinschen.de> <4978A35E.6050702@etr-usa.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4978A35E.6050702@etr-usa.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Jan 22 09:48, Warren Young wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >> Yes, the reason is that setup looks into c:\cygwin by default and if it >> finds setup files there, it will use them > > Thought so. > > A wishlist item, then: add something to 1.5's setup.exe to detect that > c:\cygwin is from a later version, and refuse to use information found > there. That is an unsupported scenario. When 1.7 goes release, 1.5 will be left only as a courtesy to 9x users. There will be only one setup.exe binary. That setup.exe will install 1.7 on NT-based machines and 1.5 on 9x-based machines. You won't have the choice unless you use an old setup.exe... which is unsupported. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/