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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat