Jim schrieb: > Tag Gerrit,
> How is a "release candidate" different from an actual release? Will > it replace my 3.3.3 installation or will it co-exist? It will replace(remove) the existing installation when installed via setup.exe. The difference is that it is tagged as 'test' and you need to switch to the 'experimental' view in setup.exe to get it offered from setup.exe, the first in setup.ini is the current version, then follows the usual [prev] tag and additional there is now the [test] tag: version: 3.3.3-3 install: release/gcc/gcc-3.3.3-3.tar.bz2 46 c616cffee0f344c37fd4e045a7a87054 source: release/gcc/gcc-3.3.3-3-src.tar.bz2 46 c616cffee0f344c37fd4e045a7a87054 [prev] version: 3.3.1-3 install: release/gcc/gcc-3.3.1-3.tar.bz2 3093869 4efc123aa901ec25683952214ac74dec source: release/gcc/gcc-core/gcc-core-3.3.1-3-src.tar.bz2 10790513 c13cbe4ca2054167e0bf33c7b61da2b5 [test] version: 3.4.1-1 install: release/gcc/gcc-3.4.1-1.tar.bz2 46 c616cffee0f344c37fd4e045a7a87054 source: release/gcc/gcc-3.4.1-1-src.tar.bz2 46 c616cffee0f344c37fd4e045a7a87054 You may also extract it manually from the Cygwin root (with `tar xjf /path/package.tar.bz2`), then you'll have both versions. Then you may call the versioned executables instead of gcc.exe. However, installations via setup.exe are recommended and manual installations are not recommended and also not supported! Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
