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Re: Proper location of the cygwin.dll WAS: Re: b19 and cygwin.dll
- To: ert at cit dot org dot by
- Subject: Re: Proper location of the cygwin.dll WAS: Re: b19 and cygwin.dll
- From: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd at hotmail dot com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 07:54:56 PST
- Cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
>Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 12:59:59 +0200
>From: Andrew Lipnitsky <ert@cit.org.by>
>To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com
>Subject: b19 and cygwin.dll
>
>.... continuation of the b19 discussion.....
>
>Hi All!
>I have Source Navigator lite and gnuwin32 b18
>installed on my computer. So cygwin.dll is placed
>in 3 points.
>
>I think that to place cygwin.dll in somewhere like c:\windows\system32
>would be quite good idea.
You know, I've always hated that idea. For a tool specific resource to
go into the operating system shared resources isn't a very good idea at
all.
>At first, it would result the reduction of disk space.
>At second, it would result the reduction of length PATH variable .
>And at last, it is general(common) practice to place shared resources
in
>c:\windows\system32 .
Ever tried to remove a tool and not be able to get rid of all of it
because parts of it is buried in a global path that everybody dumps
there stuff into? Ever had a tool trashed because some other tool
overwrote a dll and now a function no longer exists?
Leave the dll in the bin directory of the tool!!!
>
>Andrew Lipnitsky
>
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