windows registry

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 08:17:11PM -0500, Rich wrote:
> > 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.

_current_ might not be enough if you look at M$ strategy.

> > 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

then you set the same home for all users
on a Windows System. Not a good idea, why should they
share one keyring?

>   That might be.  But for myself, I hate the registry and registry
> corruption is often a big problem.

true.

>   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.

keeping the registry entries to a minimum is definitely a good idea
and that is what we have done for gnupg/gpa (3 entries so far).

Jan

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