RFC: Removing --enable-win32-registry?

[E. Weddington]

On 8 Apr 2004 at 22:15, Nathanael Nerode wrote:

> |
> | So are you saying you don't actually know what it does? and you still
> want to
> | rip it out? .....
> Basically.  :-)  This is called "code cleanup" -- removing stuff which
> nobody is actually using.  As I said, it's causing other little bugs,
> and it would be easier to fix them if I ripped it out.

What kinds of bugs is it causing?
 
> I do know sort of what it does; it stores GCC configuration information
> in the Win32 registry and retrieves it from there.  But if nobody is
> using it... :-P

As long as GCC can successfully detect it's components when it relocated (i.e. re-installed) to 
a different directory (and drive) other than --prefix, whether built with host=cygwin or 
host=mingw32, then I don't see a particular need for it. But the above *has* to work.