From: "Pēteris Kļaviņš" <klavins@netspace.net.au>
To: Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net>
Cc: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] Let's start a Cygwin 1.7 release area
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:18:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <480E7211.4090209@netspace.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <480E06A2.E63DC76@dessent.net>
Brian Dessent wrote:
> P?teris K?avi?Å¡ wrote:
>
> So that when you run setup it can start out with the same root that you
> last used so that you don't have to type it in every time.
>
> That, and also so that the native tools like cygcheck can locate the
> root dir.
So why can't the registry entry be <path-to-dll> instead of the fixed
'setup\rootdir' in order that the setup application could populate a
drop-down list of all currently installed Cygwins?
> This will be a minor problem in that if you had two installs,
> both cygchecks will think the root is the last one that you updated with
> setup. Corinna, perhaps cygcheck needs to compute the root relative to
> its location like the DLL instead. This means cygcheck will always have
> to be in /bin, but I think that's fine; it's not like it has ever been
> anywhere else.
Maybe all cyg*.exe native Windows applications could use this same
algorithm to compute their root.
> Manually moving an installed cygwin tree would be a silly thing to do,
> it would break all your services for example.
Would this problem go away if cygrunsrv.exe used the same algorithm to
compute its root?
> Anyway, if someone were
> silly enough to do that they would just need to enter the new location
> in setup; but this will be the case whether or not setup remembers its
> last install root, so I don't see how this is pertinent.
I have (finally) started using an environment where I share all my
personal files on a separate disk drive accessible from all my bootable
operating systems, whether it's Vista, WS2008, or Debian. The drive
names (and mount points) vary. It's the same as moving install trees,
and it would be nice if Cygwin didn't really care that when I started
the services this time they were started from a different location than
last time.
[In any case, Brian, I appreciate your time in answering my off-beat
questions and realise that they aren't 'core' to the business of getting
Cygwin to work. Sooner or later I'll put together the correct build
environment, something which has eluded me as yet, to produce some
diff's of ideas I have, rather than just talk about them.]
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Peter Klavins
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-22 23:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 132+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-02 12:36 Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-02 17:46 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-02 23:01 ` Charles Wilson
2008-04-03 9:42 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-03 13:56 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-03 14:20 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-03 15:16 ` Igor Peshansky
2008-04-03 15:37 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-03 15:39 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-03 15:47 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-03 23:13 ` Charles Wilson
2008-04-03 16:12 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-03 16:27 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-03 17:00 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-03 17:12 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-03 23:06 ` Charles Wilson
2008-04-04 0:39 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-04 1:51 ` Charles Wilson
2008-04-03 23:21 ` Warren Young
2008-04-04 0:41 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-03 22:52 ` Charles Wilson
2008-04-04 12:22 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-05 10:09 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-05 6:17 ` Karl M
2008-04-04 0:50 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-04 12:16 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-08 16:27 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-08 17:27 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-08 17:40 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-08 18:42 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-08 21:07 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-08 21:18 ` Brian Dessent
2008-04-08 21:46 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-08 21:54 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-08 23:27 ` Brian Dessent
2008-04-09 8:27 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-09 11:34 ` Brian Dessent
2008-04-09 12:16 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-09 12:28 ` Brian Dessent
2008-04-09 14:32 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-09 16:28 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-11 15:13 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-12 0:35 ` Brian Dessent
2008-04-12 11:36 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-12 12:23 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-12 12:43 ` Brian Dessent
2008-04-12 15:15 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-12 17:43 ` Eric Blake
2008-04-12 23:00 ` Brian Dessent
2008-04-13 9:43 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-13 19:35 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-14 9:56 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-14 14:36 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-15 3:00 ` Brian Dessent
2008-04-15 8:55 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-15 9:09 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-15 9:24 ` Brian Dessent
2008-04-15 9:31 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-15 9:35 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-15 14:17 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-15 15:44 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-15 16:16 ` Reini Urban
2008-04-15 17:59 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-15 18:39 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-15 18:52 ` Lapo Luchini
2008-04-16 9:39 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-16 16:25 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-20 15:45 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-20 18:47 ` Charles Wilson
2008-04-20 21:56 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-20 22:11 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-20 22:44 ` Charles Wilson
2008-04-20 22:55 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-20 23:08 ` Charles Wilson
2008-04-20 22:40 ` Charles Wilson
2008-04-21 8:33 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-21 20:34 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-21 20:54 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-15 18:58 ` Eric Blake
2008-04-16 2:25 ` Brian Dessent
2008-04-16 8:45 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-21 14:04 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-21 17:48 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-21 20:15 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-22 6:03 ` Brian Dessent
2008-04-22 6:59 ` Jörg Schaible
2008-04-22 8:26 ` Brian Dessent
2008-04-22 11:12 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-22 8:48 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-22 9:46 ` Brian Dessent
2008-04-22 10:57 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-22 11:07 ` Brian Dessent
2008-04-22 14:44 ` Pēteris Kļaviņš
2008-04-22 14:56 ` Brian Dessent
2008-04-22 15:26 ` Pēteris Kļaviņš
2008-04-22 15:39 ` Brian Dessent
2008-04-22 23:18 ` Pēteris Kļaviņš [this message]
2008-04-23 9:27 ` Brian Dessent
2008-04-23 20:09 ` Pēteris Kļaviņš
2008-04-22 15:38 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-14 23:24 ` Igor Peshansky
2008-04-15 3:08 ` Brian Dessent
2008-04-15 8:59 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-12 12:24 ` Dr. Volker Zell
2008-04-12 12:32 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-13 3:43 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-13 9:03 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-13 19:47 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-13 4:44 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-13 9:05 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-14 2:34 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-08 21:39 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-08 21:53 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-11 16:27 ` Andrew Schulman
2008-04-11 16:37 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-24 22:41 ` Phil Nelson
2008-07-25 4:21 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-07-25 7:21 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-25 13:56 ` Phil Nelson
2008-07-25 14:20 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-06 14:35 klavins
2008-04-06 21:04 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-08 18:34 Charles Wilson
2008-04-08 18:43 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-04-08 21:09 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-09 15:04 Charles Wilson
2008-04-09 16:02 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-22 15:51 Charles Wilson
2008-04-22 16:01 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-25 11:22 ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-04-22 16:08 ` Brian Dessent
2008-04-22 17:02 ` Charles Wilson
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