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Hello Tony, Tuesday, November 14, 2006, 11:37:33 AM, you wrote: TH> Richard Wirth wrote: >> Hello Tony, >> >> >> TH> The first public test build of evs has arrived! >> >> The Installation of evs-client on w2k clobbers an existing >> installation of cvsnt, cause it uses the same registry key >> HKLM/Software/CVS >> >> Why not to use a separete one for evs? (at least for client install) >> TH> It makes upgrading easier since you can just upgrade without having to TH> reconfigure everything... I need to modify the postinst code to move any TH> settings when things do move properly (and think carefully about the TH> layout probably). TH> The clients don't really tread on each other... evs uses different keys TH> to find itself (evs uses SearchPath and InstallBase, cvsnt and some TH> third party stuff uses InstallPath). For the client there's not a whole TH> lot in the registry to conflict. Of course installing both servers is TH> going to be an issue but then you'd get that anyway... it's not TH> something I'd expect to work. Servers are out of scope here. I wanted to use both clients - stable CVS-Client and beta EVS-Client - on the same machine. But after installing EVS-Client the old CVS complains: cvs [diff aborted]: the :pserver: access method is not available on this system So the old CVS-Client isn't able to find its procol-dlls any more :-( -- Best regards, Richard mailto:richard at wirthware.de