General questions about upgrading to 1.7
Warren Young
warren@etr-usa.com
Tue Dec 8 14:46:00 GMT 2009
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Dec 8 13:45, d.sastre.medina@gmail.com wrote:
>> I'm plannig to migrate my production env (i.e. my XPSP3 box at work
>> 8-D), from 1.5.25 to 1.7 as soon as there is an official release,
>
> There's no reason not to use the current beta.
True. Many of us have been using it for serious work for months now. I
migrated in February or so, and every problem I've had is now months in
the past.
> If you want to be on the safe side, install Cygwin 1.7 into another
> directory, for instance C:\cygwin-1.7.
...and be sure to tell it the new directory name on the *first* run of
setup-1.7.exe, yea even on the first visit to that screen. There's a
point beyond that screen and before you exit setup.exe where you all but
irrevocably convert an existing 1.5 install to a 1.7 one. You don't
even have to actually start the install process; just going deep enough
into the wizard with it believing you want to upgrade in place is enough.
Personally, I'd just back that directory *and* all the Cygwin registry
sub-trees up and go ahead with the upgrade-in-place. Parallel Cygwin
installs work, but there are annoyances.
Given your evident conservatism (XP SP3), I hope you have a concrete
reason for upgrading Cygwin. If not, there's apparently a philosophical
mismatch somewhere.
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