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[mwoehlke]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 12:38:47PM -0700, infoterror wrote:
>> Under windows, programs are installed by default in "C:\Program Files."
>> cygwin's preferred "c:\cygwin" is foolish and makes an unnecessary mess
>> of installations.
> 
> I disagree.  Not all packages install in "c:\Program Files" and putting
> Cygwin's root directory there would mean extra typing, potential
> "filename with spaces" problems, and, most importantly, it would mean 10
> extra characters eaten from the MAX_PATH limit.  Also, as is pointed out
> later in this thread, there is a whole filesystem underneath the
> c:\cygwin directory.  Right or wrong, I've always considered Cygwin to
> be sort of a parallel to the Windows directory.
> 
> You can, of course, choose your own location, however.  I don't see why
> this should be a big issue for anyone who installs Cygwin.  If they know
> about "c:\Program Files" and think that's the place that cygwin should
> go, they are welcome to put things there.
> 
> What kind of problems do you think are being caused by installing to
> "c:\cygwin" and/or what kind of problems would be solved by installing
> to "c:\Program Files\cygwin"?

Whew. Thanks for wording that better than what I was managing. :-)

...And for better or worse, Cygwin isn't breaking any rules Microsoft 
themselves haven't broken.

-- 
Matthew
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