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Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > CF> of CYGWIN environment variables is already uncomfortably high. > > Ok, you are right that the number of settings is high but it's > clear that the need for _some_ sort of settings to influence the > behaviour of Cygwin is needed, though. And the increasing complexity > of Cygwin will not lower the need for such settings. > Hmm... I started to stop reading here and respond but resisted the urge to do so. > Excuse me but in my opinion it's not reasonable to avoid a possible > (and perhaps needful) setting just because the already existing > settings are too numerous from a rather subjective point of view. > Agree. > Nevertheless I agree that the setting in an environment variable > doesn't fit our needs in the future. Shouldn't we discuss creating > a settings file which may override or supplement the CYGWIN environment > variable settings? > Perhaps doing away with the CYGWIN environment variable altogether. > We could add a CYGWIN setting ;-) like "settings_file:<DOS-PATH>" > and the file could contain setting=value pairs one per line: > > binmode=yes > check_case=relaxed > error_init=C:\Cygwin\bin\gdb.exe > ntsec=yes > smbntsec=no > tty=yes > Shouldn't this go into a /etc/cygwin.init file? This would match the way that UNIX sets up it's user supplied initialization values. Earnie. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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