Re: dll version collision

[Baurjan Ismagulov <ibr@ata.cs.hun.edu.tr>]

Hello, Christopher!

On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 03:05:50PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> You use the same technique as if you were testing another version of
> linux.  Or you'd backup your system prior to updating cygwin.  It is not
> likely that you could have two installations running on the same system
> with no bleed between them.

Well, with UML I have a reasonable environment to test most of things I
have to deal with. I would be happy to see the same for cygwin.


> Having two versions of cygwin working at the same time is not a goal
> for the cygwin project.

Does this mean that if someone comes with a clean patch doing that, it
would not be accepted? Once it were there, it wouldn't require
maintenance, any kind of user support can be explicitly disclaimed. What
kind of problems do you expect?


With kind regards,
Baurjan.

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