On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Tim Hubberstey wrote:
> I would like to play around with MS Services for Unix
> 3.5 but I don't want to compromise my existing Cygwin
> installation. Is this possible?
>
> Thanks.
This may be possible as long as you're careful and don't let them know
about each other. This means that you don't put either of them in the
global PATH, which may be problematic if MS SFU installs any of its DLLs
into the Windows System directories. If MS SFU is relatively
self-contained (doesn't install any services, doesn't add its directories
to the global PATH or install DLLs into the directories already there,
etc), you might get away with simply using separate batchfiles to launch
them (setting the PATH appropriately first). Otherwise, I'd suggest using
separate computers altogether (or OS installations on the same computer,
or VMware).
Just to make this somewhat on-topic: if you succeed, please perform some
competitive analysis, and let this list know what, in your opinion, is
Cygwin missing that MS SFU has?
Igor
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