Re: Registry freedom

2002-02-19 Thread Doru Carastan
> >The Cygwin + custom GNU tools > >installer I created installs this tools for system wide use by various > >product installers. The default location is %SystemDrive%\wrtools to > >avoid cluttering an existing C:\cygwin. > > It would hardly be cluttering to produce an /opt/wrtools. That's what

Re: Registry freedom

2002-02-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 11:18:00AM -0800, Doru Carastan wrote: >>I can see why Wind River might have a problem since apparently you're >>basing your Windows offering Red Hat's technology. You probably don't >>want to have to install your software into an existing commerical >>directory that has t

Re: Registry freedom

2002-02-16 Thread Doru Carastan
Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 10:16:42PM -0800, Doru Carastan wrote: > >Hello everybody, > > > >I believe it is time to break free from using the registry. It doesn't > >allow for multiple versions to coexists, which creates a nightmare when > >it comes to packaging Cygwin

Re: Registry freedom

2002-02-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 10:16:42PM -0800, Doru Carastan wrote: >Hello everybody, > >I believe it is time to break free from using the registry. It doesn't >allow for multiple versions to coexists, which creates a nightmare when >it comes to packaging Cygwin with another product. Hmm. Packaging

Registry freedom

2002-02-15 Thread Doru Carastan
Hello everybody, I believe it is time to break free from using the registry. It doesn't allow for multiple versions to coexists, which creates a nightmare when it comes to packaging Cygwin with another product. I've been rebuilding cygwin1.dll for a while with a custom shared memory id and regi