XWin design suggestion

[Harold L Hunt II]

I don't think it would break any hearts if we put one more file with 
preferences (not stuff needed to run) in another directory.

Harold

Jean-Claude Gervais wrote:
> A couple things:
> 
> You can usually copy a collection of folders under *nix and succeed in
> preserving your set-up.
> You can't do that with a lot of Windows software because there are a bunch
> of settings hidden in the registry.
> 
> So because of that, I'd urge you to consider storing everything in a file,
> preferably somewhere in the Cygwin file hierarchy.
> 
> Just a suggestion.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On
> Behalf Of Harold L Hunt II
> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 1:49 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: XWin design suggestion
> 
> Sylvain,
> 
> Because, as I have reiterated over and over, XWin.exe is a Windows
> application, not a Cygwin application.
> 
> As an aside, one of my goals is to have a stand-alone version of
> XWin.exe, building off of Suhaib's work, that does not depend upon
> Cygwin at all.  It will mostly be a proof of concept, but it would also
> be cool if X.org accepted the code into their sample implementation.
> Granted, it wouldn't have all of the libraries and programs, but it
> would be an X Server that ran on Windows.
> 
> Thus, I want to avoid making XWin.exe a Cygwin app.  Others may not
> agree, but that is certainly my goal.
> 
> Harold
> 
> Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
> 
>>Why would we write outside of the cygwin filesystem to complete this ?
>>Let us remain structured.
>>
>> --- Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu> a écrit :
>>
>>
>>>Biju,
>>>I think we all forgot about one option: Why don't we use the
>>>interface
>>>to (for example) C:\Documents and Settings\User_Foo\Application
>>>Data\CygwinXFree86\... ?  Is there such an interface or is it largely
>>
>>
>>>just an issue of getting the proper directory to write your config
>>>files to?
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>=====
>>Sylvain Petreolle (spetreolle at users dot sourceforge dot net) ICQ
> 
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> 
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