From: fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: cygwin32-b18, coolview, mingw32...
11 Feb 1998 07:57:08 -0800
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To: Geoffrey Noer <noer AT cygnus DOT com>
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On 10-Feb-1998, Geoffrey Noer <noer AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
> Fergus Henderson wrote:
> [...]
> > It is very very confusing of them to use "b" in the registry version
> > numbers, and to make the registry version numbers similar to the
> > release numbers (much better to start at something completely
> > different, e.g. 1000).
> 
> Yep, I agree completely.  Is it worth invalidating prior mount points
> just to change the version string though?  I'm not convinced it is.
> Next time we do need to change the registry in an incompatible way,
> I will definitely remove the "b" from the registry version string.

As mentioned in another thread, hopefully the registry handling code
will soon be changed to use HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE rather than HKEY_CURRENT_USER.
That might be a good time to make this change.

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