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Re: Avoid collisions between parallel installations of Cygwin
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:25:33AM -0500, Brian Ford wrote:
>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 ;-).
Can I caution people against making detail-free claims like this? If
you have a specific example please use it. You can't really respond to
assertions except with more assertions.
cgf