Re: General questions about upgrading to 1.7

2009-12-09 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 07:20:19PM +0100, d.sastre.med...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 07:46:27AM -0700, Warren Young wrote: > > Personally, I'd just back that directory *and* all the Cygwin > > registry sub-trees up and go ahead with the upgrade-in-place. > > Parallel Cygwin installs

Re: General questions about upgrading to 1.7

2009-12-08 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 07:46:27AM -0700, Warren Young wrote: > Personally, I'd just back that directory *and* all the Cygwin > registry sub-trees up and go ahead with the upgrade-in-place. > Parallel Cygwin installs work, but there are annoyances. I think I'll go this way. > Given your evident c

Re: General questions about upgrading to 1.7

2009-12-08 Thread Warren Young
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 8 13:45, d.sastre.med...@gmail.com wrote: I'm plannig to migrate my production env (i.e. my XPSP3 box at work 8-D), from 1.5.25 to 1.7 as soon as there is an official release, There's no reason not to use the current beta. True. Many of us have been using it

Re: General questions about upgrading to 1.7

2009-12-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 8 13:45, d.sastre.med...@gmail.com wrote: > I'm plannig to migrate my production env (i.e. my XPSP3 box at work > 8-D), from 1.5.25 to 1.7 as soon as there is an official release, There's no reason not to use the current beta. The current 1.7.0-68 is probably equivalent to the official 1.

General questions about upgrading to 1.7

2009-12-08 Thread d . sastre . medina
Hello, I'm not a contributor to this list (yet), but a fan reader, and I wanted to show my appreciation and gratitude for bringing CYGWIN. To me, WIUWI. I have been reading (not thoroughly enough yet) FAQ/features/changes/user guide for the next 1.7 release, and I have some questions: I'm plann