Move the system.ini/[drivers32] section to the registry

[Eric Pouech]

Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
> On November 24, 2003 03:00 pm, Eric Pouech wrote:
> 
>>the only part that bugs me is that we may use twice the same device if
>>it's present both in system.ini and registry. I didn't test how MS
>>behaves regarding this, but this may cause some issues.
> 
> 
> What about we cross this bridge when we get there? This entire mess
> of supporting system.ini is nasty. It just seems to me it's a lot
> of ugliness for dubious benefit. As for apps that peak directly into
> system.ini ..., let's worry about them when we see them.
> 
> I'd just get rid of all *Profile* calls from Wine, and just deal
> with the registry. If we need to support it, we can just merge
> system.ini into the registry at startup as transient values (can
> we do that?), and special case system.ini in the Profile functions
> to generate one from the registry. This way at least the ugliness
> is in one place, we don't have any duplication problems, etc.
> 
it would work if we had only system.ini and one registry layout
but, as I explained in previous mails, we have two sets of layout:
- the Win9x one
- the NT one
which of course are not the same <g>
So, we may have to take care of that.
A+

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Eric Pouech