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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 16:06:23 -0400
To: Mumit Khan <khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT EDU>
Cc: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: file-system layout in b20.2+ [Re: yikes, what are these?]
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In-Reply-To: <199906171938.OAA27263@mercury.xraylith.wisc.edu>; from Mumit Khan on Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 02:38:40PM -0500

On Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 02:38:40PM -0500, Mumit Khan wrote:
>cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com writes:
>> 
>> What I'm trying to say, is that, with the possible exception of bison
>> (which will be fixed in the next release) nothing should be relying
>> on builtin path names using the funky H-*/i-* subdirectory structure.
>> Feel free to move things into more UNIX-friendly locations.
>> 
>> In fact, that's what we'll be doing in the next release.
>> 
>
>Chris,
>
>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.

That's what I'm planning on doing.  You choose the root and everything
installs under there.

Of course, I first have a memory corruption problem to solve before I
can even think about this.  And, DJ is busy with other interesting stuff...

cgf

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