On May 28 04:36, Herbert Stocker wrote: > But there is also a flaw: > > Imagine a user who has only a 32 bit installation. > This algorithm would install the services without a '32' suffix. > -> correct > Then the user installs the 64 bit Cygwin, and now the scripts in the > 32 bit Cygwin would try to access their services with the '32' suffix > appended. > > Therefore some config setting that tells what to append seams > necessary, be it an environment variable or a registry setting. > > If the user should not be bothered with such a setting at installation > time, the 64 bit setup could rename all 32 bit services and short cuts > to have the '32' suffixes.
You can't just rename services, that's kind of heavy-handed. This is also a functionality which doesn't belong in setup, really. Also, how does setup is supposed to know which Windows service is a Cygwin service, a 32 bit service, and then, if it's a service being part of the distro or created manually by the user? > But users may need to adopt their self-made > scripts. Therefore leaving this setting to the user, seams best for me. Only distro services are supposed to do anything, *if* we decide to do anything. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
