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Re: [Patch] override-able installation_root
Hi,
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Sorry, but no. We won't accept this patch. We have deliberately chosen
to get away from the dependency to the Windows registry, and we really
don't want to add it back again.
Thank you for the response. Fair enough. But is it no to the idea of an
overridable installation_root, or to doing by way of a registry setting?
Is there another way to do this that would be reasonable? Say the use of
an environment variable? Other?
Btw., for a non-trivial patch like this you need to file a copyright
assignment. See http://cygwin.com/contrib.html, the "Before you get
started" section.
Fair enough. I estimated that it was trivial, but I accept that it isn't.
That's on my TODO list and PTC. It will have to wait until after 1.7.1
as well, though.
I'll ask around about copyright assignment. If I can get that sorted,
I'll try and help with that effort.
Best regards,
Shaddy