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RE: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation
- From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)" <garbage_collector at telia dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 23:15:49 +0100
- Subject: RE: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation
> From: cygwin-owner at cygwin dot com [mailto:cygwin-owner at cygwin dot com]On Behalf
> Of Rolf Campbell
> > Software packages belong in C:\Program\* and nowhere else
> (Note that this
> > is equal to "C:\Program Files\*" on ENGLISH Win98.
>
> Ahhh... yeah. So, what is the rest of the disk for? Why not just put
> everything in a directory called "C:\Everything"?
Ahh... Microsoft infestation detected. ;-)
I should have written "C:\Program\<package-name>\" above...
Happy now?
I _hate_ having C:\foo\ c:\bar\ c:\this\ c:\that\ directories. They DO
belong in C:\Program\ (or whatever) _AND NOT IN THE ROOT_ >:-I
Any files belonging to a software package should be kept in a storage that
identifies them as beeing part of that package. IMO a well structured
operating system allows this (e.g. AmigaOS, Unix/Linux)
Therefore cygwin is in C:\Program\cygwin\ here. As it has kept all its
files within that directory I consider it to be "well behaving". (i.e. I
talk good about it among friends ;-)
Example: Install Corel Draw (Version 8 is the last one I tried), tell it to
install in C:\Program\CorelDraw\ - what does it do? It STILL creates a
C:\corel\ directory; to hold some "essential" files.
/Hannu E K Nevalainen, Mariefred, Sweden
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