XWin design suggestion

[Sam Edge]

Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu> wrote in
<3EB7F59A.2000406@msu.edu>
in gmane.os.cygwin.xfree on Tue, 06 May 2003 13:49:14 -0400:

> 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.

Ah. Right.

If XWin.exe is a Cygwin port then config and state should stay as /etc
and $HOME files, preferably text files.

If however, XWin.exe is to become a "native" Windows application then
it should indeed use the registry. (And any discussion of persistent
state stored under /etc or $HOME becomes moot, since they don't exist
outside of the Cygwin/POSIX layer.)

-- 
Sam Edge