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Subject: Re: file-system layout in b20.2+ [Re: yikes, what are these?] 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Jun 1999 14:41:05 MDT."
             <008b01beb901$b8678350$1605a8c0 AT geonexuscorp DOT com> 
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 16:21:49 -0500
From: Mumit Khan <khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT EDU>

"Robert Campbell" <campbell AT calgary DOT paradigmgeo DOT com> writes:
> 
> 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.  

Could you please elaborate as why you prefer this approach? I don't like
multiple symbolic links when a cleanly (single) rooted system is viable
and available for free.

> I would also like to see the
> installer automatically mount / to C:\

Please, no. This is simply a bad idea no matter how you look at it.

> 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.

Why is 'C:\' naturally '/'? I don't follow. 'C:\' may be more natural to
Windows32, but has nothing to do with Cygwin, which will translate the
paths appropriate before calling win32 API and interfacing with the
system.

> 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.

I can do this with just one registry key that the pathname lookup code
uses. If I had some free time, I could almost get the current snapshot 
to do this, but since Chris is already working on this, I'll just wait 
and get it for free ;-)

Thanks for your comments on this. 

Regards,
Mumit


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