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Re: Registry freedom
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 11:18:00AM -0800, Doru Carastan wrote:
>>I can see why Wind River might have a problem since apparently you're
>>basing your Windows offering Red Hat's technology. You probably don't
>>want to have to install your software into an existing commerical
>>directory that has the name "redhat" or "cygnus" in it. However,
>>accomodating that really isn't a goal that I am very interested in.
>
>You are making a false assumption.
Are you saying that your Windows tools don't use Cygwin? I was under the
impression that you used the DLL. Oh well, live and learn.
>The Cygwin + custom GNU tools
>installer I created installs this tools for system wide use by various
>product installers. The default location is %SystemDrive%\wrtools to
>avoid cluttering an existing C:\cygwin.
It would hardly be cluttering to produce an /opt/wrtools. That's what
you'd do on linux or something similar. You wouldn't create your own
bin directory somewhere off the root on UNIX.
>Some users might have various versions and is not a good practice to
>mess up what they have. I really don't want folks to be creative and
>make changes to the stuff I rely on. They can play with c:\cygwin if
>they want to. I also advocate the slogan "you package it, you maintain
>it".
That's fine, but none of this is really a goal for cygwin as I see it.
>When the user starts a WR product installer he/she will be prompted for
>a location to install for that media. The product install dir has no
>connection whatsoever with the location of the Unix emulator providing
>the POSIX API.
Ok. Then the mount table doesn't really matter at all. Just ignore it.
Use /cygdrive/whatever for everything.
>Obviously you have total control over your distribution. Probably
>other developers will see the value and be more open to this since it
>can simplify the debugging process.
I'm not sure what having other developers being more open to this might
mean since I'm not convinced in any way that it is a good thing. I am
no more convinced now than I was the last two or three times this was
suggested.
Or, let me put it another way. I'm always open to inspecting actual
source code patches. Until then, I think my stance on "good ideas"
should be well known in this mailing list.
cgf
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