Re: Bug #1503114

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Ethan Merritt wrote:
> Why should it be a path relative to the executable?
> Can't it go in  C:\Applications\gnuplot\
> or something to that effect?  

No.  It has to be in some place chosen by the user, at installation time.

> I was under the impression that all Windows systems had a
> conventional set of directory trees under C:

Yes.  But that's all they are: "conventional".  There's exactly nothing 
special about them.

> Failing that, isn't the point of the registry file that you can
> register where individual programs keep their data files? 

Yes, but automatically writing into that is what Windows programs need 
those pesky "installers" for.  gnuplot never had any so far.

> Is there not a "register <prog-name> <directory-tree>" command of
> some sort that enters this information in the registry?

No.  The minimum you need is a .reg file, and the contents of that file 
have to be edited before it can be merged into the main registry.