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Re: Avoid collisions between parallel installations of Cygwin
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:55:03AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> So, while it might be neat to put these in the resource section, isn't
> that normally ASCII data? Or is it binary too? It's been too long
> since I played with that.
Both :) Binary blobs might work better for the DLL, where we don't want
people messing unwisely; text strings for setup.exe, where we want to let
redistributors customise the options easily and they already have to have
parsing code anyway.
cheers,
DaveK