General questions about upgrading to 1.7

[Warren Young]

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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