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Re: New to-do item - configuration
- From: Brian Genisio <briangenisio at yahoo dot com>
- To: "John A. Turner" <john dot turner at pobox dot com>, Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at informatik dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- Cc: cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 03:25:51 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: New to-do item - configuration
--- "John A. Turner" <john.turner@pobox.com> wrote:
> Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Oeste, Hans P BCGC:EX wrote:
> > >
> > > I think one ot he great things about cygwin is that it doesn't muck with
> the
> > > registry. If you want to get rid of it just delete it. Although who
> would
> > > want to get rid of it I have know idea. I'd like to see that tradition
> > > carry on. Thanks for a great product.
> >
> > Agreed. I think it's a clear vote against the registry.
>
> uh, actually cygwin does use the registry - mount info is stored there
>
> -John Turner
Very True, but Xfree/Cygwin does not... It should probably stay that way :).
The way cygwin uses the registry for mounts makes it less flexible. For
instance, it is not easy to maintain multiple installs of Cygwin for this
reason. I would hate to have it that way for XFree as well... development and
debugging would be a bear. I OFTEN run multiple XFree servers with different
configurations at the same time. A relative config file would be much more
flexible.
Brian
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