From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-08-26T00:25:52+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20376] Re: New Windows InstallShield version of Ruby

A Bull in the China Shop of Life <feoh@fourfuzzies.org> writes:

> My only wish is that it would properly handle integration with my existing 
> Cygwin system (which as far as I can tell entails not messing with the 
> existing cygwin1.dll or whatever it's called as mine is newer and works 
> whereas the Ruby shipped one breaks my Cygwin install utterly.

At some point the installer will check for the existence of a newer
cygwin .dll in the path and not install the distributed one if it
finds it. This of course will lead to a whole raft of different
errors. That's progress :)


Dave