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Re: [ITP] stow


On May 17 12:02, Max Bowsher wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On May 16 14:30, Schulman.Andrew@epamail.epa.gov wrote:
> >>Right.  I hadn't considered that, but since the Windows shortcut is
> >>fundamentally broken, you're right that stowing won't work for DLLs, or
> >>outside of the Cygwin environment.  (Philosophical question:  which
> >>component of Windows deserves the blame for the failure of the Windows
> >>shortcut?  The file system, the shortcut design, or the shell?)
> >
> >The filesystem and the OS for not supporting symbolic links.  Microsoft
> >took an approach by implementing reparse points in W2K but since these
> >reparse points only work for partitions and directories, it's still 
> >broken.
> >
> >>http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/stow/setup.hint
> >>http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/stow/stow-1.3.3-1.tar.bz2
> >>http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/stow/stow-1.3.3-1-src.tar.bz2
> >
> >Uploaded.
> 
> Umm.... Shouldn't someone have done a review first?

I did.  Packaging looked good, so what?


Corinna

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