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Re: Avoid collisions between parallel installations of Cygwin
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:40:17PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>So, here's your next question: Given that there are no or so few
>problem reports which could be tracked down to a MSYS/Cygwin
>co-existance problem, does that mean the potential problems are
>exaggerated, or does that mean we just didn't detect the cause of the
>problem? As you can easily guess, I have no answer to this question.
Since I'm about to leave on vacation, and don't want to hold anything
up, I won't have any objections to Corinna's changes if they include a
way for every running version of Cygwin to register itself and a way for
cygcheck to report the versions of Cygwin that have been run on the
system. So, I that means an additional work in the DLL. I don't think
it makes sense for anything other than cygwin1.dll to register itself
and I do understand that there may be issues with registry write
permissions.
I saw Chuck's concerns about being able to turn off this behavior, and
it would be nice if they were addressed.
Thanks everyone for helping make this a true collaborative open source
experience. The insights in this thread were what I was hoping to see
when I first suggested to Red Hat that this change be vetted here.
I have a lot more to say on this whole scenario but I'll save that for
when I return.
cgf