From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26907 invoked by alias); 22 Apr 2008 15:26:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 26485 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Apr 2008 15:26:45 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from MTA003E.interbusiness.it (HELO MTA003E.interbusiness.it) (88.44.62.3) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:26:23 +0000 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEAKOgDUhSaPRK/2dsb2JhbACscg Received: from host74-244-static.104-82-b.business.telecomitalia.it (HELO [134.44.28.91]) ([82.104.244.74]) by ibs09.interbusiness.it with ESMTP; 22 Apr 2008 17:26:16 +0200 Message-ID: <480E037E.5050608@netspace.net.au> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:26:00 -0000 From: =?UTF-8?B?UMSTdGVyaXMgS8S8YXZpxYbFoQ==?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] Let's start a Cygwin 1.7 release area References: <20080415183856.GM23852@calimero.vinschen.de> <4804FB2D.6040802@byu.net> <4805645E.63ED0505@dessent.net> <20080416084447.GN23852@calimero.vinschen.de> <20080421140428.GA7301@calimero.vinschen.de> <20080421174811.GZ23852@calimero.vinschen.de> <20080421201510.GE23852@calimero.vinschen.de> <480D7F83.300AE579@dessent.net> <20080422084800.GG23852@calimero.vinschen.de> <480DB3E6.E51F9986@dessent.net> <20080422105702.GI23852@calimero.vinschen.de> <480DC6D8.26697F92@dessent.net> <480DF99D.50403@netspace.net.au> <480DFC6F.3D5C2519@dessent.net> In-Reply-To: <480DFC6F.3D5C2519@dessent.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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/msg00276.txt.bz2 Brian Dessent wrote: > P?teris K?avi?Å¡ wrote: > >> Does the Cygwin DLL know its own path? If so, how about >> >> \Software\Cygwin\ >> >> ... to allow multiple parallel Cygwin installs? > > I think you've missed the context of this discussion. This key will > never be read or written by the DLL, and the DLL already supports > parallel installs by the fact that it uses /etc/fstab. > Hmm. Well, if it's only setup that needs the registry entry, and if multiple setups, regardless of , are using the same fixed registry entry serially, what's the point of the registry entry? Remembering where the last setup's root was? Which could have been moved by the user afterwards? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Peter Klavins