Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote:
> Windows style isn't always the best. Cygwin isn't much "Windows" in other
> ways, why should it be in this regard?
Inventing things to get around windows design is poor practice. When
the operating system provides well-defined and documented ways for
storing progra
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 06:35:53PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote:
>Christopher Faylor schrieb:
>>Just please don't use the "Cygnus Solutions" hierarchy in the registry,
>>please. :-)
>
>What else?
>
>"HKCU/Software/Cygwin Setup" or
>"HKCU/Software/Cygwin/Setup"
>instead of
>"HKCU/Software/Cygnus Soluti
Christopher Faylor schrieb:
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 05:44:49PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
Yes and that's how it should be done. Store the size and position in
the registry. That's what it's there for, that's what well-behaived
programs do. Like it or hate it, that's how windows is designed and
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 10:42:54AM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>> >I want to package and maintain unison-gtk2 for Cygwin. Unison is a
>> >file synchronizer for Unix and Windows. It comes in two interfaces:
>> >text and GTK2. The text-mode version is already packaged for Cygwin in
>> >the uniso
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 05:44:49PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
>Yes and that's how it should be done. Store the size and position in
>the registry. That's what it's there for, that's what well-behaived
>programs do. Like it or hate it, that's how windows is designed and
>making up some brain dea
My main point:
/EMPHASIZING/
What I tried to say, in an obviously "too short" way, in my initial posting
was this;
Allow installing cygwin in a scripted way by allowing predefinition of all
settings - that are indeed variable - in a file that is EASY to handle.
This would IMO be very convinient
