Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/10/17/18:01:23
Gareth Pearce wrote:
>>
>> Maybe a dumb question. Why does Cygwin not automatically update
>> environment variables as part of the installation? Or at least ask
>> if they should be updated?
>
> Well thats a little complex... - in win9x/ME - it would have to edit
> autoexec.bat - win NT/2k/XP - fiddle with the system control panel
> settings wherever they are stored. And then theres system vs
> user.
>
> The post install script could add a /etc/profile.d/ entry - but the tty
> variable is supposed to be set before initialising cygwin or else it
> can do some bizare things that are not so nice.
>
> In either case - asking a question in a postinstal script would be
> against the current trend of usage of postinstall scripts which work
> without interaction. (and if unattended setup work is to reach
> completition, they should probably stay that way)
>
> Otherwise - it would have to be done by the setup program itself
> and I suspect that Robert would not be interested in that given
> that hes trying to make setup purely data-driven.
>
> and Not asking a question - is not the go since while for best
> usage nano and emacs (and others?) need tty. Nano at least
> is mostly functional without it. And tty is an option for a reason,
> people have experienced problems with tty On.
>
> While I might think that tty should be on by default thus avoiding
> these problems alltogeather, having never experienced tty
> related problems. I dont use a very broad range of cygwin
> related things and so am probably not representitive of the
> broader cygwin communitiy.
> However I didnt expect ntsec to have become the default
> so soon - maybe tty will change despite my expectations
> to the contrary.
>
Thanks for the information. Too many options for the environment
variables and if Cygwin does something incorrectly it could cause
trouble. Updating those files or panels would be a snap for advanced
users, so lets leave it up to the user, a least for now.
Actually, I haven't installed Cygwin for the first time on a machine, in
a long while. Does it popup a dialog to telling the user to modify the
PATH to include C:\cygwin\bin? If such a dialog exists, it could also
mention the CYGWIN variable set to "tty". Just an idea.
Rocco
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