Multiple installations and 3PPs

[Roman]

I did not know to much about mount and regtool in Cygwin.
As regtool is a Cygwin program and uses the Cygwin environment (am I 
wrong?) fiddling around in the registry seems to me like changing the 
car on the race track at full speed instead of going for a pitstop.
I seemed more save to me changing the registry entries when no Cygwin is 
running and therefore used DOS/Windows batches.

I wrote a collection of DOS/windows batch scripts, which do at least a 
convenient job of changing between installed Cygwin versions.
I seems to work with the two versions I have from my 3PP's (V1.2 and 
V1.5.10) but I have not been working with it extensively. So there might 
still be short comings.

I would like to place it some where everyone interested can download, 
modify and extend it. I do not want to create something like a project, 
simply provide it to people who might find it useful (added the 
description file).
Maybe there exists some download page for Cygwin additionals ?


Greets

Roman


Dick Repasky wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 08:54:35AM -0500, Dick Repasky wrote:
>>
>>> Roman here is what I do.
>>>
>>> 1) Install first instance of cygwin.
>>> 2) Export the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACINE/.../Cygnus Solutions to a
>>>   file. Use a filename that represents the install.
>>> 3) Delete the registry key.
>>
>>
>> As usual, everyone is impressed with the fact that they know that cygwin
>> uses registry keys and no one is thinking that they could use cygwin 
>> tools
>> to manipulate them.
>
>
> Incorrect! As usual, everyone follows the path of least resistance to 
> solve problems.  They take what they know and what they find out by 
> reading and piece them together to form a solution.  From reading the 
> available documentation on mount, amateurs like myself are very 
> unlikely to conclude that mount can be used to switch between 
> installed instances of cygwin.  Chances are that they do know 
> something about the registry and they can easily figure out how cygwin 
> makes use of them.  So, that's what they do.
>
> If you want people to use mount, revise the documentation. Either make 
> the statement explicitly and provide an example, or explain the 
> workings of cygwin mounts and how cygwin "starts" clearly enough that 
> readers can deduce for themselves that mount can be used.
>
> Enjoy life,
>
> Dick Repasky
>
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>
> Dick Repasky
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>
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>
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