Gareth Pearce wrote:
Thanks for the information. Too many options for the environment variables and if Cygwin does something incorrectly it could cause trouble. Updating those files or panels would be a snap for advanced users, so lets leave it up to the user, a least for now.
Maybe a dumb question. Why does Cygwin not automatically update environment variables as part of the installation? Or at least ask if they should be updated?
Well thats a little complex... - in win9x/ME - it would have to edit autoexec.bat - win NT/2k/XP - fiddle with the system control panel settings wherever they are stored. And then theres system vs user.The post install script could add a /etc/profile.d/ entry - but the tty variable is supposed to be set before initialising cygwin or else it can do some bizare things that are not so nice. In either case - asking a question in a postinstal script would be against the current trend of usage of postinstall scripts which work without interaction. (and if unattended setup work is to reach completition, they should probably stay that way) Otherwise - it would have to be done by the setup program itself and I suspect that Robert would not be interested in that given that hes trying to make setup purely data-driven. and Not asking a question - is not the go since while for best usage nano and emacs (and others?) need tty. Nano at least is mostly functional without it. And tty is an option for a reason, people have experienced problems with tty On. While I might think that tty should be on by default thus avoiding these problems alltogeather, having never experienced tty related problems. I dont use a very broad range of cygwin related things and so am probably not representitive of the broader cygwin communitiy. However I didnt expect ntsec to have become the default so soon - maybe tty will change despite my expectations to the contrary.
Actually, I haven't installed Cygwin for the first time on a machine, in a long while. Does it popup a dialog to telling the user to modify the PATH to include C:\cygwin\bin? If such a dialog exists, it could also mention the CYGWIN variable set to "tty". Just an idea.
Rocco
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