On Nov 10, 2014, at 9:26 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkow...@cygwin.com> wrote:
> On 2014-11-10 14:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >> Shall the "db" entries utilize the Windows home folder if it exits(*) >> and drop using the unixHomeDirectory? It seems inevitable... > > If one uses the same program, one native Windows and one Cygwin, they would > then potentially cause conflicting/incompatible config dot-files in the same > directory (line endings, path conventions, etc.). That’s only true if you make Cygwin $HOME == `cygpath -u %USERPROFILE%`. If you put it somewhere under AppData/…/Cygwin, any non-Cygwin program that stomps on that directory isn’t following the platform rules. Not that I think the risk of this is all that great. I find that a lot of Windows software that comes from the Unix/Linux world already does something different with RC files and such. Common schemes are: 1. Store files under AppData/…/AppName, where they won’t conflict with Cygwin $HOME == %USERPROFILE% 2. Name files and directories differently, often without leading dots, harkening back to the FAT naming limitations. Leading underscores are a common alternative here. Care to list some native Win32 ports that *do* put their user files in %USERPROFILE%, using the same naming scheme as on Linux/Unix except prefixed $HOME? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
