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From: "Robert Campbell" <campbell AT calgary DOT paradigmgeo DOT com>
To: "Cygwin AT Sourceware. Cygnus. Com" <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: RE: file-system layout in b20.2+ [Re: yikes, what are these?]
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 14:41:05 -0600
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> SNIP SNIP
>
> Thanks for the good news. It's never too late to do the right thing ;-)
>
> What I would like to see is that Cygwin installs to a virtual root that
> can be anywhere on the physical disk.
>
> I really don't want c:/usr etc on my disk, but would rather have the
> choice to do the following: install Cygwin b20.2+ to /cygwin/cygwin-b20.2
> and the installer set that to be '/'. If I want to switch to 20.1, I
> can simply change the key (via env var or registry, whichever works),
> and (and perhaps reboot or kill all running Cygwin apps) and go.

I Disagree (in part).  I would like to see Cygwin installed to
/cygwin/<version>
but then have the installer create the appropriate symbolic links or mount
points to /usr,/bin,/etc et-al such that  /etc is actually a (mount point or
symbolic link) to /cygwin/<version>/etc.  I would also like to see the
installer automatically mount / to C:\

This would provide a unix friendly envionment for compiling and installing
things, as you mentioned above, but would leave / as C:\  which IMHO is a
logical way of doing things.

As far as changing to another version is concerned, instead of one or two
registry entries to modify, you would need a number of them, but this could
still be handled by a simple program, etc.

Just my two cents worth.


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