From: cgf@bbc.com (Christopher Faylor) Subject: Re: cygwin32-b18, coolview, mingw32... 11 Feb 1998 21:44:08 -0800 Message-ID: References: <199802110018.QAA23001@rtl.cygnus.com;> Reply-To: cgf@bbc.com To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com In article <19980211181645.02893@murlibobo.cs.mu.OZ.AU>, Fergus Henderson wrote: >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. 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. -- http://www.bbc.com/ cgf@bbc.com "Strange how unreal VMS=>UNIX Solutions Boston Business Computing the real can be." - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".