RFC: Removing --enable-win32-registry?

[Danny Smith]

From: "Christopher Faylor" 

> On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 12:29:35PM -0700, Stephan T. Lavavej wrote:
> >[Nathanael Nerode]
> >>This seems to be an essentially unused option.  Removing it would allow
> >>for some serious cleanup of prefix.c (which currently has annoying
> >>little bugs like #9968).
> >
> >>mingw32* -- all the mingw32 developers seem to --disable it
> >
> >Kill it.  As a MinGW user/builder, I don't want it.  If it were gone,
> >that'd be one less thing for me to disable.  And if nuking it helps you
> >fix bugs, all the better.
> 
> Ditto.  As the windows maintainer, I have never enabled it and have
> winced over the code in prefix.c.
> 
> I would like to get Danny Smith's (I've bcc'ed him) ok on this, though.
> He generates the mingw version of gcc.  I'm pretty sure he would be ok
> with it but I don't know for sure.

OK.
Danny

> cgf