From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2766 invoked by alias); 12 Apr 2008 17:43:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 2755 invoked by uid 22791); 12 Apr 2008 17:43:55 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from qmta01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (HELO QMTA01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net) (76.96.62.16) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 12 Apr 2008 17:43:30 +0000 Received: from OMTA08.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.12]) by QMTA01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id CfYp1Z0040Fqzac5109N00; Sat, 12 Apr 2008 17:43:28 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.103] ([67.166.125.73]) by OMTA08.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id ChjS1Z0071b8C2B3U00000; Sat, 12 Apr 2008 17:43:28 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=SS4rPwJolhYA:10 a=mJJYwu7-_7IA:10 a=xe8BsctaAAAA:8 a=H5oNMhQOU_K6-Et6URcA:9 a=a1Lv7ZzNIMJqNDtUO69lWGgm_nYA:4 a=eDFNAWYWrCwA:10 a=rPt6xJ-oxjAA:10 Message-ID: <4800F539.5010703@byu.net> Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 17:43:00 -0000 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080213 Thunderbird/2.0.0.12 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] Let's start a Cygwin 1.7 release area References: <47FCB20D.DACDC9FA@dessent.net> <20080409121559.GA15549@calimero.vinschen.de> <47FCC01A.A9ABB7B9@dessent.net> <20080409143139.GA5920@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20080409162803.GL23852@calimero.vinschen.de> <20080411151333.GO23852@calimero.vinschen.de> <480014A9.62EF4E0F@dessent.net> <20080412113540.GD23852@calimero.vinschen.de> <20080412122232.GE23852@calimero.vinschen.de> <4800AF02.DC1B3AF5@dessent.net> <20080412151515.GG23852@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20080412151515.GG23852@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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/msg00168.txt.bz2 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 4/12/2008 9:15 AM: | | Probably we will still need *some* registry entry. Setup could create | one for its own purpose, just to find the installation path. I agree. Besides, based on the question on the main list - how is an independent distributor supposed to know if cygwin is installed, so they don't become a 3PP? If we have something in the registry, the answer is obvious - cygwin is installed. If we don't, then they have to hunt for likely candidate locations (and will probably guess wrong, becoming a 3PP even though they were trying to play nice and search for a previous installation). | Maybe the | registry value should use a version number, so that we can have two | parallel installation again, should we ever release a -3 distro... I think we need a version number, and a directory where the installation was done. But we don't need a full mount table. And I think it is still conceivable that cygwin1.dll does not have to refer to the registry, just setup.exe. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkgA9TkACgkQ84KuGfSFAYBX5ACdEHk5SV36EMLHxw1rQCfNwPo8 xZkAoIA1a0pDIBkN9D6/cKLeCxCN6AQc =x7b6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----