[ITP] stow

Max Bowsher maxb@ukf.net
Mon May 16 17:04:00 GMT 2005


Schulman.Andrew@epamail.epa.gov wrote:
> I would like to package and maintain stow for Cygwin.  Stow is an
> installation manager for local software packages.  It installs packages by
> creating sets of symlinks from the installed location (e.g. /usr/local) to
> a stow directory (e.g. /usr/local/stow/emacs) where the real files live.

This, presumably, should work fine for simple packages, but will be unusable 
in conjunction with packages that install DLLs?

If you've found a way around that, then great!

If not, make sure to note so in the readme.

Max.



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