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Re: setup and mintty (was Re: New setup.exe release?)


On 24 May 2011 19:42, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On May 24 13:21, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> >I had a quick look:
>> >
>> > "dosfilewarning" Sets a bool. ÂHas immediate effect.
>> > "envcache" Â Â Â Ditto.
>> > "error_start" Â Â Â Â Sets a string. ÂHas immediate effect.
>> > "export" Â Â Â Â Sets a bool. ÂHas effect on exec'ed child processes.
>> > "glob" Â Â Â Â Â Sets two bools. ÂHas effect on exec'ed child processes.
>> > "proc_retry" Â Â Sets number. ÂHas immediate effect.
>> > "reset_com" Â Â ÂSets bool. ÂHas immediate effect.
>> > Â Â Â Â Â Â Â However, per the comment in fhandler_serial::open this
>> > Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Âworks around a problem in Windows 9x! ÂMaybe we should
>> > Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Âkill the setting?
>>
>> Yep. ÂIt's always fun to nuke those.
>
> Talking about nuking CYGWIN settings, I have at least two more candidates:
>
> Â"envcache" Â Did we ever had a problem which could be attributed
> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â to this setting?
>
> Â"export" Â Â Does anybody really set CYGWIN settings in the registry?
> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Shouldn't we drop fetching CYGWIN settings from the registry
> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â entirely?
>
> Â"proc_retry" Does it really help?
>
> Personally I would also remove "strip_title", "display_title", and
> "upcaseenv", but that's just me.

The options remaining after such a cull are fairly obscure too, hence
I think the CYGWIN variable is the appropriate interface, in
particular if it will now be possible to set it in ~/.profile or
similar.

Adding a field to the mintty options dialog would of course be
possible, but I'd rather not, because those settings have nothing to
do with the terminal. Also, it looks suspiciously like the start of a
slippery slope towards options for all sorts of things.

Andy


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