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I read the above but I want to bundle Cygwin with a product, and ship it to customer sites. How can I do this without conflicting with any Cygwin installed by the user?

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I read the above but I want to bundle Cygwin with a product, and ship it to customer sites. How can I do this without conflicting with any Cygwin installed by the user?

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Third party developers who wish to use Cygwin should check if there is a version of cygwin installed and use the installed version if it is newer, or conditionally upgrade if it is not.