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Re: setup size prefs


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
making up some brain dead "custom ini file" is just wrong.

Yes, setup.exe is a pure windows program and should use windows methods for storing settings.

Agreed.
It's also technically much easier to store it in the registry and not in ini files or /etc/setup/last-* files.


Should I move the last-* files content then to the registry? Or just copy.
I would say move. When the user switches back to an older setup.exe version, he/she looses his/her prefs.


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 Solutions/Setup"

We know that the name is misleading, but it's our well established legacy root. For the DLL at least.


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