[HEADSUP] Let's start a Cygwin 1.7 release area

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri Apr 4 14:07:00 GMT 2008


On Apr  4 09:55, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Btw., since setup.exe (or the subsequent script) can and will always create
> > an /etc/fstab file, doesn't that mean we can get rid of the choices
> > "all users" and "just me"?  The only difference between these two choices
> > is in which registry area the mount points go.  So there's no reason to
> > stick to that choice.
> 
> Yes, that makes sense.
> 
> > And while we're at it, I don't see any need to stick to the UNIX/DOS
> > choice either.  We should always install binary mount points.  If the
> > user needs text mounts, there's an editor and a fstab file, right?
> 
> Ah, but which mode will you edit it in? :-)

Doesn't matter.  The code reading fstab understands LF and CRLF line
endings :)


Corinna

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