On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 07:08:17PM +0100, Emile van Bergen wrote: > On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 11:31:11AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Why make it a separate program that runs under Windows? Why not mount > > the Windows partition from the Linux installer, and read the registry > > from there? > Because it's easier for Windows to read its own registry and write a > portable ASCII file than it is for Linux, as you'd have to implement a > 'fs' driver for it. Not that I think this is all necessarily a good idea > though. Actually, I would find it significantly easier to borrow code from Wine to do registry parsing and run a tool against a Windows partition mounted read-only to extract the information we need, than I would to write a Windows application to do roughly the same thing. > Before you know, people will go back to Windows to change their IP > address in Linux because they don't know how to do it there. Well, since debconf is not a registry, that would be a little difficult, wouldn't it? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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