From: cgf AT bbc DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject: Re: cygwin32-b18, coolview, mingw32...
11 Feb 1998 21:44:08 -0800
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References: <199802110018 DOT QAA23001 AT rtl DOT cygnus DOT com;>
Reply-To: cgf AT bbc DOT com
To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

In article <19980211181645 DOT 02893 AT murlibobo DOT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU>,
Fergus Henderson  <fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU> wrote:
>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.

The change is in addition to rather than a replacement of the
HKEY_CURRENT_USER entries so this would not be a good time for this change.
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