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 1.7.1 release. > and I dont want to ruin 1.5 if things work unexpectedly, so... > Q1-Not having gone through beta-testing process, am I supposed to > install 1.7 over existing 1.5? In theory that's possible. It's not quite clear yet if we really want to allow it for a couple of reasons. You read the User's Guide, so you know that there are really a lot of changes which will also change the user experience, for instance mount point handling, UTF-8 as default charset, to name the most important ones. If you want to be on the safe side, install Cygwin 1.7 into another directory, for instance C:\cygwin-1.7. > Q2-If so, what will happen to my custom env files (.bashrc, for > example)? will they be left untouched? Yes. Trouble are the user mount points. These are the ones which under 1.5 are stored in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry area. While the system mount pointsd (the ones under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE) will be converted to mount points in /etc/fstab, this won't happen for user mount points. Every user who has user mount points will have to recover them manually via the copy-user-registry-fstab shell script. See the last note below http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table > Q3-Possibly a fool question, but anyways, are those apps I built under > /usr/local/stow still gonna work? There's a 99% chance that they still work. YMMV. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
