I think there should be a WindowsAPI.jl package where people can put all wrappers for the low level C interfaces that the Windows API defines. It could (over time) hold all the data structure definitions, and wrappers for the various Win32 function calls.
Maybe a higher level registry package could then depend on that WindowsAPI.jl package? From: julia-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:julia-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Simon Byrne Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 3:55 AM To: julia-users@googlegroups.com Subject: [julia-users] Access Windows registry from Julia? The Windows registry useful to determine installation paths of other software and whatnot. I've hacked together some code using the REG QUERY command: https://github.com/JuliaStats/RCall.jl/blob/e4ba35cf45ca2eb041f660642449b8259c2f30e3/deps/build.jl#L13 but it is somewhat complicated (and potentially unreliable) to parse. Has anyone had any luck using the C interface? It looks a little complicated, so if anyone has any examples, I would be grateful. I guess ideally we would want to wrap the C interface into package, similar to _winreg in Python: https://docs.python.org/2/library/_winreg.html Perhaps we need an "up for grabs packages" list? s P.S. On that note, perhaps we should put the Julia installation path in the registry, for other software that might need to find it: both R and Python do it.
