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