windows registry

[Rich]

On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 20:15:40 +0100 or Thereabouts
The voices in my head told me that Jan-Oliver Wagner <jan@intevation.de> said:

> >   Curious why this is needed if GNUPGHOME is properly defined?
> 
> AFAIK it is not that easy to properly define 
> a system variable in Windows that is
> * immediately valid
> * working the same on all W's

  That's a good point   You would need to reboot in order for that
environment variable to be in effect.  I was under the impression
however that defining environment variables could be done under all 
(current) Windows versions the same way.
 
> I dont't know much about Windows, but why do installer
> programs not allow to set environment variables?

    I haven't looked at any of the installer programs, but you should
be able to get the installer to call a batch file that said something
like:

echo SET GNUPGHOME=C:\GNUPG >> AUTOEXEC.BAT

 (or something like that)

  But as I said, I haven't used any of the installers so that might
not be possible.

> Perhaps it is official concept of MS to drop
> environment variables and instead use the registry?

  That might be.  But for myself, I hate the registry and registry
corruption is often a big problem.
 
 Often, clients of mine will have problems with registry corruption 
(that I have to fix), and I wonder if it isn't because so many
programs are writing to it.

  Timo was writing to the registry with later versions of WinPT and I
encouraged him to simply put everything in a config file instead of
using environment variables or the registry.  That might be
complicating things too much for the typical windows user however.

  Rich...
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