How "beta" is the beta 1.7?

[Rance Hall]

The timeline for 1.7 going stable is any day now. (late November,
early December)

I am running a windows 7 box that I want to install the new 1.7

Ive used older versions of cygwin so I know what to expect as far as
usage goes, but these questions weren't covered in the FAQ as far as I
could tell.

1)  I would like to install the "beta" but have a concern about
needing to reinstall when 1.7 does go "stable".  Is this concern bogus
or is there some basis in reality for it?
If all I have to do is run setup again, I can live with that, but if I
have to download a new setup and "overwrite" the existing install, I
might just wait it out.

2)  Some of you may know of the program poderosa, which I have used in
the past, poderosa is a tool that lets you open tabbed browsers and
use ssh/telnet/and cygwin and has plugins that allow you to support
null modem connections and zmodem up/downloads all at the same time.
With my test install of windows 7 poderosa could not detect that
cygwin was installed.  I assume that this is caused by a registry
entry that the old installer could not set.  Is there any confirmation
of this and if cygwin 1.7 fixes this?

Thanks for the help

Rance

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