[HEADSUP] Let's start a Cygwin 1.7 release area

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Apr 21 16:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr 16 10:44, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Apr 15 19:28, Brian Dessent wrote:
> > >   So, with that in
> > > mind, are there any objections to simply HK{LM,CU}\Software\Cygwin?
> > 
> > Just go ahead.
> 
> I did now.  I just checked in a change which
> 
> - drops reading mount points from the registry entirely,
> 
> - let the postinstall script (which still should be moved to its own
>   package) create /etc/fstab entries from the old system registry
>   mount points.
> 
> - Sets the Cygwin parent registry keys to HKLM\Software\Cygwin and
>   HKCU\Software\Cygwin.
> 
> I guess now the way is free for setup.exe to utilize the new registry
> locations as well.

Btw., just FYI, utils/path.cc doesn't build right now since it still
tries to pull mount points from the registry.  I'm working on changing
that to utilizing fstab files instead.


Corinna

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