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Re: Pre-1.7 registry mount points


On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 01:37:02PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>Hi,
>
>since 1.7 we don't use the registry for mount points anymore.
>Nevertheless, setup.exe, as well as the cygwin package postinstall
>script 000-cygwin-post-install.sh still test for the old, pre-1.7
>registry mount points and either uses them (setup) or copies them over
>to the fstab file (000-cygwin-post-install.sh).
>
>The first official 1.7 release was 2009-12-23, whiich is more than
>three years ago.
>
>Does anything speak against ignoring the old registry mount points from
>now on?  If not, I'm pretty much set up to nuke the code.

I just nuked some old setup configuration code from about that era.
I think you should clean this up too since we no longer support the
legacy release.

cgf


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