Adding MSYS functionality to Cygwin
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Jun 19 09:05:00 GMT 2013
On Jun 18 22:03, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 03:24:52PM -0600, Warren Young wrote:
> >On 6/18/2013 13:31, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 01:10:06PM -0600, Warren Young wrote:
> >>>> 3. In MSYS mode Cygwin need to be very portable
> >>>
> >>> It would indeed be nice to have a portable Cygwin. That is, one that
> >>> could be run from a copied directory or USB key, without being formally
> >>> installed. Such a thing would need to solve the 3PP problem, though,
> >>> which is Hard (tm).
> >>
> >> Why wouldn't that work now? You can copy cygwin1.dll anywhere you want.
> >
> >Because FAQ item 4.19, and because 3PP.
>
> The FAQ is out-of-date. Multiple Cygwin copies should coexist peacefully
> these days although it still is something that we wouldn't necessarily
> advocate for a novice user.
I'll rewrite that FAQ.
Corinna
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