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Re: XWin design suggestion
- From: Sylvain Petreolle <spetreolle at yahoo dot fr>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 01:16:00 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: XWin design suggestion
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Wouldnt this be better if it accepts at least 2 ways to configure this
?
(registry/Windows file/Cygwin file)
After all XWin can check if its running on Cygwin or not.
> If XWin.exe is a Cygwin port then config and state should stay as
> /etc
> and $HOME files, preferably text files.
>
> If however, XWin.exe is to become a "native" Windows application then
> it should indeed use the registry. (And any discussion of persistent
> state stored under /etc or $HOME becomes moot, since they don't exist
> outside of the Cygwin/POSIX layer.)
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