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Re: 1.5 / 1.7 setup.exe entanglement?
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
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