From: fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) Subject: Re: cygwin32-b18, coolview, mingw32... 11 Feb 1998 07:57:08 -0800 Message-ID: <19980211181645.02893.cygnus.gnu-win32@murlibobo.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <19980204162708.23692@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Geoffrey Noer Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com On 10-Feb-1998, Geoffrey Noer 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. -- Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".