Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> On Nov 11 12:14, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> > On Nov 11 11:05, Achim Gratz wrote: >> > > Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes: >> > > > 1. Add a setting to /etc/nsswitch.conf which allows to specify one of >> > > > the above: >> > > > >> > > > home: [unix|win|home]... >> > > > >> > > > - "unix" means, set pw_dir to unixHomeDirectory >> > > > - "win" means, set pw_dir to homeDirectory >> > > > - "home" means, set pw_dir to /home/$USER >> > > > - Multiple entries are possible. >> > > > - Default in the absence of this setting is: always set pw_dir to >> > > > /home/$USER. >> > > >> > > Looks good, but maybe allow the AD attribute to be explicitly named (e.g. >> > > cygwinHomeDirectory). >> > >> > Cygwin schema extension? :) >> >> I just created a patch and a matching snapshot on >> https://cygwin.com/snapshots/ >> >> The new stuff is still missing documentation, [...]
> If you're wondering why I didn't create a test release yet, it's all > about this dreaded documentation. > Did I mention already how much I hate writing documentation? Yes? > Whatever. I really hate writing documentation! It's infinitely worse > than writing the code. Every 10 lines of documentation I write for my projects make me want to rewrite at least one line of the code. Because it feels stupid now, that I've explained, how it works. > I'm just working on the documentation and it's going forward really > tenaciously, so I felt the need to vent^Wkeep you informed. > When I have a more or less working piece of documentation, I'll create > a new Cygwin test release again, for installation via setup. > I'd appreciate if those not shy to install developer snapshots would > give this stuff a try in the meantime. I think I'm about to make a script to install snapshots, at this rate it seems the right thing to do. Is there a direct way to query for the latest snapshot? I'm not very fond of HTML parsing. > Also, if you don't understand the settings, or some of the settings, > feel free to ask. The developer (that's me, I guess) sometimes just > doesn't know if the description makes sense or not. It will very likely > help to make the documentation better. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 05.12.2014, <08:16> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
