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From: Mellman Thomas <Thomas DOT Mellman AT icn DOT siemens DOT de>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: A proposal for a Cygnus naming convention
Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 08:38:32 +0200 
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com]
>>Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 5:19 PM
>>To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>>Subject: Re: A proposal for a Cygnus naming convention
>>
>>
>>On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:32:00AM +0200, Mellman Thomas wrote:
>>>Given the registry name:
>>>
>>>
>>>HKLM\software\Cygnus solutions\cygwin\mounts v2\/
>>>
>>>
>>>May I suggest that the blank in the name is superfluous and 
>>problematic
>>>for processing by Unix-type tools - even in the registry.  Bill may
>>>feel vindicated that *his* OS tolerates blanks, but does it 
>>really add
>>>significant readibility?
>>
>>You can suggest anything, however, what you are suggesting 
>>makes no sense:
>>
>>1) The cygwin registry entry is not intended to be manipulated by
>>   "Unix-type tools".  Use *mount* if you want to manipulate it.
>>
>>2) Changing the name would break backwards compatibility.
>>
>>3) Even if you wanted to use "Unix-type" tools, a space is 
>>really not an
>>   obstacle.  Unix certainly can deal with spaces.
>>
>>So, bottom line is that there is absolutely no way that we'll 
>>be changing
>>anything.  You should just be considering the registry to be 
>>a black box,
>>anyway.  The cygwin DLL deals just fine with the current scheme.


I didn't mean to say that anything needs to be changed.  It was
only a suggestion for the future.  But to suggest that the registry
is a black box is simply gates-ian.  That's a big advantage of unix:
it doesn't try to hide things from the users.  Hopefully, cygwin
developers aren't so close that they're seduced by the dark side.


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