Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear installpath !?

[Curtis L. O. <cu...@fl...>]

Mally writes:
> My own preference is for %homedrive%%homepath%\FlightGear, partly because
> FlightGear is not a standard Windows program (most of the programs installed
> into %ProgramFiles% tend to be), and partly because the other option forces
> you to put quotes round any path-related stuff on the command line, which is
> a pain.

The quote restriction is due to a problem with batch files not
understanding the "=" and passing that along correctly, and not a
limitation of FlightGear or even windows.

> By the way, I would assume that a cygwin installation would live in
> the cygwin 'Unix' directories, rather than trying to install into
> some Windows standard place, but if the intention is to raise the
> profile of FlightGear in the Windows world, I think it would be
> better to have a Windows installation which doesn't rely on cygwin.

There's no reason a cygwin compiled executable couldn't be installed
in a standard "windows" location.

Curt.
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