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RE: /cygdrive/windows ?
- To: Espen Harlinn <espen dot harlinn at seamos dot no>, cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: RE: /cygdrive/windows ?
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 05:31:32 -0700 (PDT)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
--- Espen Harlinn <espen.harlinn@seamos.no> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 10:50:06PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > >
> > >`cygpath --windir`
> > >
> > >The only time we'd need something like this visible outside a compiled
> > >application is a script, and a script can use cygpath to get the
> > >directory path and store it. Any compiled program can just call
> > >GetWindowsDirectory() itself.
> >
> > Actually, I was thinking that it would be nice to have this in a tar file:
> >
> > /cygdrive/system/some.dll .
> >
> > This would always extract some.dll to the windows/system directory.
>
> IMHO: Putting things in windows\system[32] is not a very bright idea,
> keeping the complete cygwin installation in a separate directory is how I
> like it. At various times it has been usefull to have several different
> cygwin installations installed into different directories. If some.dll goes
> into windows\system[32] the requirement for backwards binary compability
> becomes more stringent when changes are made to some.dll. There is also the
> slight problem that some.dll may allready exist on the target system and it
> might just be something quite different from your some.dll i.e. a name
> clash.
>
> Espen
IMNSHO, I agree with Espen. Not a good idea at all.
Cheers,
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Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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