RFC: Removing --enable-win32-registry?

[E. Weddington]

On 8 Apr 2004 at 11:44, Richard Kenner wrote:

>     Or does it affect every time that GCC is executed, i.e. does GCC look
>     for the registry key to find the location of the components to execute?
> 
> The latter.

Then this feature could be useful e.g., installing binaries in a different location 
than was specified with --prefix, which is pretty typical in a Windows 
environment and redistributing binaries.
 
>     Also, since you mentioned that it installs other keys, do you happen
>     to know what other keys?
> 
> "it" is not well defined.  I don't *know* what the current installers do
> and I don't *remember* what the original one that I wrote did.
> 

Sorry, I was going off of:

"    As far as being useful for an InstallShield like installer, I don't
    think it goes far enough to do that for today's installers.  I think
    it probably should be adding a couple more standard keys to be fully
    compliant.

It does add more.  I forget the full set.  But GCC only *uses* the
ones in prefix.c."

Did you mean that your installer added more keys but GCC only uses the one 
defined in --enable-win32-registry?