From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26499 invoked by alias); 21 Apr 2008 17:48:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 26489 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Apr 2008 17:48:42 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:48:14 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 6F5066D4312; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:48:11 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:48:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] Let's start a Cygwin 1.7 release area Message-ID: <20080421174811.GZ23852@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: <20080415085515.GW23852@calimero.vinschen.de> <20080415090849.GZ23852@calimero.vinschen.de> <20080415141730.GA21313@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20080415154400.GL23852@calimero.vinschen.de> <20080415175923.GA21976@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20080415183856.GM23852@calimero.vinschen.de> <4804FB2D.6040802@byu.net> <4805645E.63ED0505@dessent.net> <20080416084447.GN23852@calimero.vinschen.de> <20080421140428.GA7301@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080421140428.GA7301@calimero.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2008-04/txt/msg00262.txt.bz2 On Apr 21 16:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 16 10:44, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Apr 15 19:28, Brian Dessent wrote: > > > So, with that in > > > mind, are there any objections to simply HK{LM,CU}\Software\Cygwin? > > > > Just go ahead. > > I did now. I just checked in a change which > > - drops reading mount points from the registry entirely, > > - let the postinstall script (which still should be moved to its own > package) create /etc/fstab entries from the old system registry > mount points. > > - Sets the Cygwin parent registry keys to HKLM\Software\Cygwin and > HKCU\Software\Cygwin. > > I guess now the way is free for setup.exe to utilize the new registry > locations as well. Btw., just FYI, utils/path.cc doesn't build right now since it still tries to pull mount points from the registry. I'm working on changing that to utilizing fstab files instead. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat