My main point:
/EMPHASIZING/
What I tried to say, in an obviously too short way, in my initial posting
was this;
Allow installing cygwin in a scripted way by allowing predefinition of all
settings - that are indeed variable - in a file that is EASY to handle.
This would IMO be very convinient,
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 05:44:49PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
Yes and that's how it should be done. Store the size and position in
the registry. That's what it's there for, that's what well-behaived
programs do. Like it or hate it, that's how windows is designed and
making up some brain dead
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 10:42:54AM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote:
I want to package and maintain unison-gtk2 for Cygwin. Unison is a
file synchronizer for Unix and Windows. It comes in two interfaces:
text and GTK2. The text-mode version is already packaged for Cygwin in
the unison package.
Christopher Faylor schrieb:
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 05:44:49PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
Yes and that's how it should be done. Store the size and position in
the registry. That's what it's there for, that's what well-behaived
programs do. Like it or hate it, that's how windows is designed and
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 06:35:53PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote:
Christopher Faylor schrieb:
Just please don't use the Cygnus Solutions hierarchy in the registry,
please. :-)
What else?
HKCU/Software/Cygwin Setup or
HKCU/Software/Cygwin/Setup
instead of
HKCU/Software/Cygnus Solutions/Setup
We know
Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote:
Windows style isn't always the best. Cygwin isn't much Windows in other
ways, why should it be in this regard?
Inventing things to get around windows design is poor practice. When
the operating system provides well-defined and documented ways for
storing program
