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

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Apr 22 02:46, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > I would suggest to use a setup subkey, because you might find that
> > you have to store more than one value at one point.  It would be
> > cleaner this way, imho.  And originally we came up with the version
> > number, too, so what about "setup-2" or "setup"?
> 
> Traditionally setup has stored all of its state in files under
> /etc/setup.  I think this is a good thing to continue, since it makes it
> easy to access and manipulate them from scripts.  Given that we're
> moving the mount table out of the registry and into /etc, I don't see
> why we'd want to do the reverse with setup's bits.  So in that sense, I
> don't see a need for a subkey that will only ever have one key.
> 
> On the other hand, I'd hate for a bad decision now to make things
> annoying in the future.  Let me ask this: what's the layout for the
> other items that will still be in the registry?  Are we still looking
> at:
> 
> \Software\Cygwin\Program Options\default
> \Software\Cygwin\Program Options\foo.exe
> \Software\Cygwin\Program Options\bar.exe
> \Software\Cygwin\heap_chunk_in_mb
> \Software\Cygwin\heap_slop_in_mb
> 
> This is kind of ugly too, we have a mix of things with spaces and
> underscores.  How about the following:
> 
> \Software\Cygwin\setup\rootdir
> \Software\Cygwin\options\heap_chunk_in_mb
> \Software\Cygwin\options\heap_slop_in_mb
> \Software\Cygwin\options\defaults
> \Software\Cygwin\options\app-specific\foo.exe
> \Software\Cygwin\options\app-specific\bar.exe
> 
> Or, perhaps:
> 
> \Software\Cygwin\rootdir
> \Software\Cygwin\heap_chunk_in_mb
> \Software\Cygwin\heap_slop_in_mb
> \Software\Cygwin\default_options
> \Software\Cygwin\app-specific\foo.exe
> \Software\Cygwin\app-specific\bar.exe
> 
> I really don't know.

I don't know either.  I'm not going to change what's in Cygwin
right now since it's seldomly used anyway.  So, for now, let's
just agree on

  \Software\Cygwin\setup\rootdir

so I can patch utils/path.cc and upload a new cygwin 1.7.0-4, ok?

> (The version number I think is implicit in the fact that this is a
> totally new key that's never been used before.  If in the very distant
> future setup needs yet another namespace it can have a "setup-2" subkey
> then.)

Fine with me.


Thanks,
Corinna

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