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Setup for 1.7 must still handle 9x?
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:35:16 +0200
- Subject: Setup for 1.7 must still handle 9x?
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
And the next question.
I have hacked up a version of setup which handles most of the stuff
necessary to install Cygwin 1.7 now. However, it contains changes which
are hard to implemented transparently on 9x. For instance, all local
file access is now using wide char functions which are usually not
available on 9x. The mount table in the registry is not written anymore,
rather only the {HKLM,HKCU}\Software\Cygwin\setup\rootdir value.
Having only one version of setup which supports the old 1.5 install as
well as the new 1.7 install is extremly tricky, IMHO.
Is it worth it at all? Isn't it sufficient to keep the 1.5 installer
on the branch and use it for 9x installations in future only?
Corinna
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