Re: GNAT on a multiboot computer

From: Adrien Plisson (aplisson-news_at_stochastique.net)
Date: 10/29/04 

Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:31:38 +0200

Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:
>Has two advantages:
>
> 1) if you need to reinstall windows you cygwin on D: will not be destroyed

you can't assume that for any software installed on windows, and cygwin is no
exception. most softwares write keys in the registry which you lose if you
reinstall. those missing keys may render the software unusable (for cygwin, it
seems all mount points are stored in the registry). only GPS is smart enough
and don't need an installation.

i dream of a system which don't have any f****** conventions as "c:", nor any
f****** weird locations as "Documents and Settings" or "/opt/usr/bin", and do
not need any installation, ala Macintosh 10 years ago (copy where you want, run).

there is also a big incompatibility between unix software under cygwin and
native software under windows: path incompatibilities, conventions
incompatibilities, humor incompatibilities... all this gives me headaches when
using cygwin: it took me 2 nights to configure and install Glade properl last
week, and i still hadn't figure out how to make install PolyORB (configure
script is buggy).

so, under Windows use the Windows way, under Unix use the Unix way, and don't
even try to mix them or else you get a monster... 

-- 
rien

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