Re: GNAT on a multiboot computer

[Adrien Plisson <aplisson-news@stochastique.net>]

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