On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:56:28AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Apr 13 15:35, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 11:42:46AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >We would need to transfer them to the new place or we stick to the >> >"Cygnus Solutions" for backward compatibility. I'm not sure we still >> >need the Program Options thingy. I never heard about anybody actually >> >using heap_slop_in_mb and only fortran programmers seem to need >> >heap_chunk_in_mb :) >> >> I use Program Options (since I invented it) but I'm probably the only >> person in the known universe to do so. > >Are you suggesting to remove the Program Options? I admit I never quite >understood what to do with them which I couldn't put into a script.
? "Program Options" are not intended to be put in a script. They are intended to be set once to cygwin environment variable settings and then forgotten. It's somewhat equivalent to setting a global cygwin environment variable and could be used to set a per-system or per-user policy. >>>I'm all for changing the name from "Cygnus Solutions" to "Red Hat", but >>>OTOH I think keeping the name of the key is more hassle free. >> >>Can't it just be "Cygwin" rather than "Cygnus Solutions" or "Red Hat"? > >By definition the key under the Software key is supposed to be the >company name, the next key is the product key, os it should contain the >"Red Hat" *iff* we change it. I'm not sure, though, we should change >it at all. Yes, I know. I just don't think it clarifies anything to put a "Red Hat" in the registry. cgf
