From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,9dabd984ea966de9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!207.35.177.252!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT on a multiboot computer References: <417DFD3C.6080209@stochastique.net> <417e16a7$0$30703$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be> <417f57d8$0$30704$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be> <549gd.17128$Qs6.1469677@news20.bellglobal.com> <1126782.ZbbeXJgdME@linux1.krischik.com> <41820f69$0$7073$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be> In-Reply-To: <41820f69$0$7073$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 10:59:13 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1099061899 198.96.223.163 (Fri, 29 Oct 2004 10:58:19 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 10:58:19 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5869 Date: 2004-10-29T10:59:13-04:00 List-Id: Adrien Plisson wrote: > Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote: > >> Has two advantages: >> >> 1) if you need to reinstall windows you cygwin on D: will not be >> destroyed The attribution above is not correct - I did not say this. Warren. > > > 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... > -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg