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Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] Let's start a Cygwin 1.7 release area
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Brian Dessent wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
>> I don't know either.  I'm not going to change what's in Cygwin
>> right now since it's seldomly used anyway.  So, for now, let's
>> just agree on
>>
>>   \Software\Cygwin\setup\rootdir
>>
>> so I can patch utils/path.cc and upload a new cygwin 1.7.0-4, ok?

Does the Cygwin DLL know its own path?  If so, how about

\Software\Cygwin\<path-to-dll>

... to allow multiple parallel Cygwin installs?
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  Peter Klavins